The best Victor Jory’s mystery movies

Victor Jory

Victor Jory

23/11/1902- 12/02/1982
Today we present the best Victor Jory’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 Victor Jory’s movies.

A Woman's Secret

A Woman's Secret
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 13/01/1949
  • Character: Brook Matthews
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.

Charlie Chan in Rio

Charlie Chan in Rio
6.9/10
A pair of murders in Rio de Janeiro leads the local police to call the famed detective. Charlie is puzzled, at first, when it appears that one of the murderers is killed by the first victim's widow.

The Green Archer

The Green Archer
6.5/10
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
6.4/10
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.

Streamline Express

Streamline Express
5.3/10
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Secrets of the Lone Wolf
6.4/10
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.

The Unknown Guest

The Unknown Guest
5.4/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 22/10/1943
  • Character: Charles 'Chuck' Williams
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.

Murder in Trinidad

Murder in Trinidad
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 16/05/1934
  • Character: Howard Sutter
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spain trying to track down the leader of a gang of diamond smugglers. A trail, littered with murders, leads him to a crocodile-infested swamp.

Meet Nero Wolfe

Meet Nero Wolfe
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 16/07/1936
  • Character: Claude Roberts
Meet Nero Wolfe is a 1936 mystery film based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance, written by Rex Stout. Set in New York, the story introduced the detective genius Nero Wolfe (Edward Arnold) and his assistant Archie Goodwin (Lionel Stander).

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