The best Rose Hobart’s mystery movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Rose Hobart’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 Rose Hobart.
Isle of the Dead
6.5/10
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
6.1/10
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Rose Hobart
5.6/10
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
The Cat Creeps
5.2/10
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
Mr. and Mrs. North
6/10
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
5.5/10
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
The Shadow Laughs
4.2/10
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
