The best John Eldredge’s mystery movies

John Eldredge

John Eldredge

30/08/1904- 23/09/1961
We present our ranking of the best John Eldredge’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about John Eldredge.
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Private Detective

Private Detective
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 09/12/1939
  • Character: Millard K. Lannon
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.

The Black Cat

The Black Cat
6.1/10
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.

Horror Island

Horror Island
6/10
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.

Backlash

Backlash
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/03/1947
  • Character: John Morland
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
7/10
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

Dark Alibi

Dark Alibi
6.5/10
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.

Sh! The Octopus

Sh! The Octopus
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 14/12/1937
  • Character: Paul Morgan
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.

Up Goes Maisie

Up Goes Maisie
6.2/10
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
5.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 11/01/1936
  • Character: Dr. Harrigan
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.

Dangerous Partners

Dangerous Partners
6.1/10
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

Murder by an Aristocrat

Murder by an Aristocrat
5.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 13/06/1936
  • Character: John Tweed
A wealthy family is blackmailed, murder results, and a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.

Fair Warning

Fair Warning
6.3/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 05/03/1937
  • Character: Dr. Galt
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.

Bermuda Mystery

Bermuda Mystery
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/05/1944
  • Character: Lyman Brooks
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

Passkey to Danger

Passkey to Danger
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 11/05/1946
  • Character: Alexander Cardovsky
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.

Mysterious Crossing

Mysterious Crossing
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 27/12/1936
  • Character: Paul Briand
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...

I Ring Doorbells

I Ring Doorbells
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 28/02/1946
  • Character: Ransome
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.

Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case

Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
6.7/10
The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped (?) along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), who by default is the brightest character in the picture.

The White Cockatoo

The White Cockatoo
6.4/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 29/01/1935
  • Character: Francis Talley
In a spooky hotel on the wind-swept coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.

The French Key

The French Key
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/05/1946
  • Character: John Holterman
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.

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