Mad Magician, The
(US, Motion picture)
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- (1954) Screenplay written by Crane Wilbur (who also wrote the script for a later Price vehicle, The Bat. Vincent Price stars as magician Gallico the Great, who goes mad after his tricks are stolen by a rival, and turns to murder. A mystery/thriller, filmed in 3D.
Citations:
1. Complete Films of Vincent Price, Lucy Chase Williams, Citadel Press, 1995.
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Madhouse
(Motion picture)
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- (1974) A mystery with horror/thriller overtones.
Citations:
1. Complete Films of Vincent Price, Lucy Chase Williams, Citadel Press, 1995.
2. Vincent Price, 'Madhouse,' by Mark Clark, Midnight Marquee Actor Series, Midnight Marquee Press, edited by Gary and Susan Svehla, 1998.
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Maltese Falcon
(Motion picture)
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- (1931) The first film adaption of Dashiell Hammett's novel, starring Ricardo Cortez as Spade Dudley Digges as Caspar Gutman, Otto Matieson as Joel Cairo and Dwight Frye as Wilmer.
Citations:
1. Masters of Menace, Greenstreet and Lorre, Ted Sennett, E. P. Dutton, 1979.
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Maltese Falcon
(US, Motion picture)
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- (1941) The third, and first successful film adaption of Dashiell Hammett's novel. (The one in the middle was called Satan Met A Lady and turned The Fat Man into a stout woman.
Citations:
1. Masters of Menace, Greenstreet and Lorre, Ted Sennett, E. P. Dutton, 1979.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
(US, Motion picture)
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- (19--) The second of the two versions of this film made by Alfred Hitchcock.
Citations:
1. None at this time.
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Mask of Dimitrios, The
(US, Motion picture)
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- (1944) Zachary Scott makes his film debut as Dimitrios, the unscrupulous criminal whose death Peter Lorre, as writer Cornelius Leyden, is investigating. He keeps meeting up with Sydney Greenstreet's Peters... Based on the Eric Ambler novel, and rather similar to the later The Third Man.
Citations:
1. Masters of Menace, Greenstreet and Lorre, Ted Sennett, E. P. Dutton, 1979.
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Missing Rembrandt, The
(Motion picture) |
- (1932) Second of the Arthur Wontner Holmes movies, produced by Twickenham Studios. Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson, Minnie Raynor as Mrs. Hudson.
Citations:
1. The Films of Sherlock Holmes, Chris Steinbrunner and Norman Michaels. Citadel Press, 1978.
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MOTION PICTURES
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- All motion pictures to do with crime, mystery, thrills, and suspense will have entries in the MOVIE VIEWS AND REVIEWS section. 'Horror' movies that are predominantly mysteries (for example 13 Ghosts, original House on Haunted Hill) will be featured, but no modern day 'slasher movies' of any kind.
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MOVIES
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- See entry under Motion Pictures.
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Murder
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- (1930). Hitchcock's third sound film (after Blackmail and Juno and the Paycock. Script by Alma Reville and Hitchcock. From the novel Enter Sir John by Winifred Ashton (Clemence Dane). Starred Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Miles Mander.
Citations:
1. Cinema in Britain, Ivan Butler, AE Barnes/Tintivy Press, 1973.
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Murder By Death
(US, Motion picture)
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- (1976) Spoof of murder mysteries and detectives - Miss Marble, Dick and Dora Charleston, Inspector Sidney Wang, etc.
Citations:
1. None at this time.
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Murder by the Clock
(Motion picture) |
- (1931) starting Lilyan Tashman.
Citations:
1. 'The Paramount Horrors,' by Ken Hanke in Scarlet Street magazine issue 32, 1999, pg. 48.
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Murder, He Said
(US, Motion picture)
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- (19__) Zachary Scott makes his film debut as Dimitrios, the unscrupulous criminal whose death Peter Lorre, as writer Cornelius Leyden, is investigating. He keeps meeting up with Sydney Greenstreet's Peters... Based on the Eric Ambler novel, and rather similar to the later The Third Man.
Citations:
1. Masters of Menace, Greenstreet and Lorre, Ted Sennett, E. P. Dutton, 1979.
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Murder on the Orient Express
(US, Motion picture)
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- (1974) Adaption of the novel by Agatha Christie, with an all-star British cast: Albert Finney as Poirot, Sean Connery, Michael York, and Americans such as Lauren Bacall and Anthony Perkins.
Citations:
1. None at this time.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
(Motion picture) |
- (1932) adaption of the Edgar Allan Poe short story, starring Bela Lugosi.
Citations:
1. Reviewed briefly by John Brunas in Scarlet Street magazine issue 6, Spring 1992, pg. 70.
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Mysterious Dr. Satan
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- (1940) Eduardo Cianelli portrays a super criminal in this Republic serial.
Citations:
1. Detectionary: A Complete Guide to Mystery Fiction, edited by Otto Penzler, Chris Steinbrunner and Marvin Lachman. Ballantine Books, 1971.
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