The best Theodore von Eltz’s mystery movies

Theodore von Eltz

Theodore von Eltz

05/11/1893- 06/10/1964
Today we present the best Theodore von Eltz’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 Theodore von Eltz’s movies.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
7.9/10
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

The Cat Creeps

The Cat Creeps
7.2/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 10/11/1930
  • Character: Harry Blythe
Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.

The Saint Takes Over

The Saint Takes Over
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 07/06/1940
  • Character: Shipboard Card Cheat
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. George Sanders returned as Templar, with Wendy Barrie playing his latest romantic conquest in her second of three appearances in the Saint film series (playing a different role each time). This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack (Jonathan Hale), who appeared in several of the Saint series. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.

Under Cover of Night

Under Cover of Night
5.8/10
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

Devil's Cargo

Devil's Cargo
5.5/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/04/1948
  • Character: Thomas Mallon
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
5.7/10
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

The Westland Case

The Westland Case
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/10/1937
  • Character: Robert Westland
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

Sinner Take All

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

Bermuda Mystery

Bermuda Mystery
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/05/1944
  • Character: Lee Cooper
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

The Arizona Kid

The Arizona Kid
5.9/10
The Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt (Carole Lombard), accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt (Theodore von Eltz), actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
5.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 24/03/1941
  • Character: Jim Ritter
Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.

I Cover Chinatown

I Cover Chinatown
6.2/10
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.

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