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Post by Salzmank on Jul 30, 2017 3:30:03 GMT
You've named a lot I would have chosen (The Thin Man, Charlie Chan, for example), but I'll give it a stab, hoping I meet the whodunit criteria and sticking with some of the less famous ones. The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Uninvited (1944) The Cat and the Canary (1939) Lady on a Train (1945) Murder She Said (1962) Spellbound (1945) My Favorite Brunette (1942) But I have to add Laura (1944), just because I love it so much. Beyond this, I think I'm into the really famous ones. , one of my favorite movies (I was recently defending it--I can't believe it needs defending, but so be it!--on the "Monster Kid" forum), is a curious case of cross-genre pollination. I mean, for a ghost movie, it actually has a more involved, complicated (too complicated?) puzzle plot than at least half of cinematic whodunits, with probably more clues to boot! Then again, as I wrote there too, the supernatural tale and the mystery tale both do come from the same source, Gothic literature. Just to substantiate my and spiderwort's contention that The Uninvited is in fact a particularly good whodunit as well as a rollicking ghost story: I have only recently realized how similar the plot is to Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, even going so far as the final twist... ...especially as regards who loves whom, and who the murderer is, though the specifics of this latter point are reversed between the works.
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