The best Phyllis Brooks’s mystery movies
We present our ranking of the best Phyllis Brooks’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 Phyllis Brooks.
The Shanghai Gesture
6.6/10
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
6.7/10
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Charlie Chan in Reno
7/10
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
The Unseen
5.9/10
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
Two in the Dark
6.3/10
Director Benjamin Stoloff's 1936 mystery, set in Boston, stars Walter Abel as an amnesiac and Margot Grahame as an unemployed stage actress who work together to solve the murder of a playwright.
Slightly Honorable
6/10
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
