The best Jerome Cowan’s mystery movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jerome Cowan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jerome Cowan.
The Maltese Falcon
8/10
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Cry Wolf
6.6/10
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
Street of Chance
6.4/10
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
Who Done It?
7.3/10
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
The Unfaithful
6.8/10
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Murder in the Music Hall
6.2/10
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Fog Island
5.3/10
Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.
The Saint Strikes Back
6.2/10
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
The Fat Man
6.2/10
A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but private eye Brad Runyan thinks there's more to it.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
6.3/10
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Find the Blackmailer
6/10
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
Crime by Night
6.2/10
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
There's Always a Woman
6.7/10
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Meet the Wildcat
6.2/10
Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, let their hair down and went "screwball" in the Universal comedy-mystery Meet the Wildcat. Bellamy plays a New York gumshoe on the trail of an art thief. His investigation is confounded by the presence of snoopy girl reporter Lindsay.
Deadline at Dawn
6.8/10
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Flight to Nowhere
4.3/10
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
The Crime Doctor's Courage
6.2/10
A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
Deadline for Murder
5.4/10
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
Mr. and Mrs. North
6/10
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
