The best Olaf Hytten’s crime movies

Olaf Hytten

Olaf Hytten

03/03/1888- 11/03/1955
We present our ranking of the best Olaf Hytten’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 Olaf Hytten.
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The Woman in Green

The Woman in Green
6.6/10
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

The Suspect

The Suspect
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1944
  • Character: Mr. Jevne (Uncredited)
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
6.4/10
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defence Committee call in Holmes ...

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/03/1935
  • Character: Scotland Yard Radio Operator (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.

The Shanghai Chest

The Shanghai Chest
5.9/10
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites.

Footsteps in the Dark

Footsteps in the Dark
6.7/10
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

Rio

Rio
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Banker (uncredited)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan
6.4/10
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

The Moonstone

The Moonstone
5/10
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.

Journal of a Crime

Journal of a Crime
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 10/03/1934
  • Character: Victor - Butler
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

The Brighton Strangler

The Brighton Strangler
6.3/10
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

Lord Jeff

Lord Jeff
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1938
  • Character: Instructor
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.

The Son of Dr. Jekyll

The Son of Dr. Jekyll
4.9/10
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.

The Lady and the Mob

The Lady and the Mob
6.3/10
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/11/1939
  • Character: Mr. Clark
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

Scotland Yard Investigator

Scotland Yard Investigator
6.1/10
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 03/02/1940
  • Character: Charles (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

Alias Mr. Twilight

Alias Mr. Twilight
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/12/1946
  • Character: Eckles
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.

Trapped by the Mormons

Trapped by the Mormons
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1922
  • Character: Elder Marz
Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.

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