The best William Newell’s mystery movies

William Newell

William Newell

06/01/1894- 21/02/1967
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best William Newell’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 William Newell.

Keeper of the Flame

Keeper of the Flame
6.7/10
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
6.5/10
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Lady in the Lake

Lady in the Lake
6.5/10
Private detective Philip Marlowe is asked by a publishing executive, Adrienne Fromsett, to locate the wife of her boss, publisher Derace Kingsby. Earlier she had sent her husband a telegram saying she was heading to Mexico to marry Chris Lavery. However Kingsby had recently seen Lavery in the neighbouring Bay City. Marlowe pursues his investigation at the Kingsby's lakeside cottage.

The Missing Juror

The Missing Juror
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 16/11/1944
  • Character: Wally, Counterman (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Nick Carter, Master Detective
6.1/10
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

The Mandarin Mystery

The Mandarin Mystery
5.3/10
Ellery Queen sets out to solve a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember
6.6/10
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

A Tragedy at Midnight

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.

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