The best Mona Barrie’s mystery movies

Mona Barrie

Mona Barrie

18/12/1909- 27/06/1964
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Charlie Chan in London

Charlie Chan in London
6.9/10
After receiving congratulations from the Home Secretary for solving his most recent case, Charlie is sought out by Pamela Gray, a beautiful but desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. She is so convinced of his innocence that she becomes distraught when she overhears Neil Howard, her brother's lawyer and her fiancee, confide to the detective his belief in his client's guilt. Angered at this disclosure, she returns his ring and breaks off the engagement. Although the execution will take place in 65 hours, Charlie pledges to expose the murderer. All potential suspects are reassembled in the country mansion of family friend Geoffrey Richmond, where the murder took place, as Charlie tries to expose the real murderer before time runs out.

Sleepers East

Sleepers East
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.

Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn
6.3/10
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 18/11/1941
  • Character: Nurse Marian Tracy
Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father (Charley Grapewin) are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack (Blanche Yurka). There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.

Storm Over Lisbon

Storm Over Lisbon
5.6/10
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
5.3/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 27/03/1942
  • Character: Eileen Crispin
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.

Murder Among Friends

Murder Among Friends
7.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 28/02/1941
  • Character: Clair Turk
A society doctor (John Hubbard) helps an insurance-company file clerk (Marjorie Weaver) check deaths related to a big policy.

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 07/06/1940
  • Character: Deedee Doree
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is.

The Devil's Mask

The Devil's Mask
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 23/05/1946
  • Character: Louise Mitchell
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.

A Tragedy at Midnight

A Tragedy at Midnight
6.1/10
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

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