The best Lyle Talbot’s mystery movies

Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot

08/02/1902- 02/03/1996
Today we present the best Lyle Talbot’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 Lyle Talbot’s movies.

Danger Street

Danger Street
5.6/10
Magazine owners (Jane Withers, Robert Lowery) sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

The Mad Magician

The Mad Magician
6.5/10
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many
5.4/10
An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

The Thirteenth Guest

The Thirteenth Guest
5.7/10
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.

The Dragon Murder Case

The Dragon Murder Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 25/08/1934
  • Character: Gale Leland
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.

The Scarf

The Scarf
6.7/10
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

Murder by an Aristocrat

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

Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton
6/10
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.

A Night for Crime

A Night for Crime
5.2/10
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

Girl Missing

Girl Missing
6.7/10
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.

Devil's Cargo

Devil's Cargo
5.5/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/04/1948
  • Character: Johnny Morello
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.

The Falcon Out West

The Falcon Out West
6.1/10
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.

A Shriek in the Night

A Shriek in the Night
5.3/10
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Kord find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs
6.5/10
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Fog Over Frisco

Fog Over Frisco
6.5/10
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.

While the Patient Slept

While the Patient Slept
6.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 09/03/1935
  • Character: Ross Lonergan
A murder occurs when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.

Murder in the Clouds

Murder in the Clouds
5.9/10
  • Genre: AdventureMystery
  • Release: 15/12/1934
  • Character: Bob 'Three Star' Halsey
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.

Appointment with Murder

Appointment with Murder
5.4/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 24/11/1948
  • Character: Fred Muller
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert. This one has the Falcon dealing with art thieves.

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