The best Robert Emmett O'Connor’s mystery movies

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor

18/03/1885- 04/09/1962
Today we present the best Robert Emmett O'Connor’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 Robert Emmett O'Connor’s movies.
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Star of Midnight

Star of Midnight
6.7/10
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.8/10
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Double Alibi

Double Alibi
6.2/10
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie Gets Her Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/06/1942
  • Character: Benefit Stage Manager (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?

Sinner Take All

Sinner Take All
5.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 18/12/1936
  • Character: Police Capt. Greenwood (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

The Mysterious Mr. Wong
4.7/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 25/01/1935
  • Character: Officer 'Mac' McGillicuddy
Bela Lugosi stars as Mr. Wong, a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton Wallace Ford and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6.1/10
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Up Goes Maisie

Up Goes Maisie
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 01/02/1946
  • Character: Rose Bowl Watchman (Uncredited)
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

Penthouse

Penthouse
6.8/10
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

The Public Defender

The Public Defender
6.4/10
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

Girl Overboard

Girl Overboard
6.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/02/1937
  • Character: Sergeant Hatton
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.

Who Killed Who?

Who Killed Who?
7.4/10
A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.

Super-Sleuth

Super-Sleuth
5.7/10
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Hot Steel

Hot Steel
5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 24/05/1940
  • Character: Police Inspector
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

The Lone Wolf Returns

The Lone Wolf Returns
6.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 31/12/1935
  • Character: Detective Benson
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.

Whistling in Brooklyn

Whistling in Brooklyn
6.7/10
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

Freedom of the Press

Freedom of the Press
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 28/10/1928
  • Character: Boss Maloney
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.

The Crime Nobody Saw

The Crime Nobody Saw
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 12/03/1937
  • Character: Tim Burke
Three playwrights (Lew Ayres, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker) develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

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