The best Leonard Mudie’s mystery movies

Leonard Mudie

Leonard Mudie

11/04/1883- 14/04/1965
Today we present the best Leonard Mudie’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Leonard Mudie’s movies.
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The Letter

The Letter
7.5/10
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent
7.4/10
The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, has a nose for a good story—which promptly leads him to the crime of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring and—not entirely coincidentally—falls in love.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMysteryThriller
  • Release: 01/09/1939
  • Character: Barrows - Moriarty's Attorney (uncredited)
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…

My Name Is Julia Ross

My Name Is Julia Ross
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 08/11/1945
  • Character: Peters (uncredited)
A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
7.1/10
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/02/1939
  • Character: Deputy District Attorney Garrett (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

They Won't Forget

They Won't Forget
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 14/07/1937
  • Character: Judge Moore
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.

When Were You Born

When Were You Born
5.8/10
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

Arrest Bulldog Drummond
6/10
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

The Jury's Secret

The Jury's Secret
6.4/10
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

The Nurse's Secret

The Nurse's Secret
5.7/10
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Bulldog Drummond at Bay
6.6/10
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.

London by Night

London by Night
6.1/10
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.

The Mystery of Mr. X

The Mystery of Mr. X
6.9/10
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.

The King Without a Crown

The King Without a Crown
5.8/10
  • Genre: HistoryMystery
  • Release: 09/10/1937
  • Character: Missionary Eleazar Williams (uncredited)
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.

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