The best Roscoe Karns’s mystery movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Roscoe Karns’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Roscoe Karns.
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.
Double Alibi
6.2/10
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Night of Mystery
5.1/10
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
Devil's Cargo
5.5/10
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.
I Ring Doorbells
6.3/10
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
The Crooked Circle
5.3/10
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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.
You'd Be Surprised
6.3/10
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
