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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 22, 2021 22:46:35 GMT
John and Kajsa Hillman. Swedish Director Arne Mattsson adapted to the big screen a series of five thriller films, the “Hillman-thrillers” based upon the works of author Folke Mellvigay.
A popular crime/mystery writer Mellvigay also wrote screenplays, his first novel in the Hillman series was written in 1951, Uppdrag för Hillman ("Mission For Hillman"). The crime fiction novels and films all have a related colour in the title, two notable films released in 1958 are Damen i svart ("The Lady in Black") & Mannekäng i rött ("Mannequin in Red")…  Private detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman are called in to solve a case of murder after the body of a model is found, she was connected to a famous Stockholm high class fashion house, in Mannequin in Red…It is a shame that sidekick character Freddy tags along…
 
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Post by Stammerhead on Jun 22, 2021 23:28:53 GMT
Although he wasn’t that memorable for his detective work John Shaft was a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman.  |
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Post by teleadm on Jun 23, 2021 18:51:16 GMT
Though he was retired and had married a rich woman, his skills as a private detective always came to use anyway, with a certain help of his wife's curiosity. At least in the movies about Nick Charles and his wife Nora, and offcourse a dog named Asta.  Dashiell Hammett's characters from "The Thin Man" resulted in the popular series that started with the movie version of The Thin Man 1934. Nick Charles (or William Powell) isn't "the thin man", it's another character.  |
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Post by marshamae on Jun 24, 2021 13:56:32 GMT
Haunted Honeymoon starring Robert Montgomery as Lord Peter Wimsey. The film was meant to star Robert Donat, a perfect choice, but he bowed out unexpectedly. Montgomery was available to play the amateur sleuth trying to stick to a promise to give up detection despite finding a body in the cellar the night of his honeymoon.
The film is based on a play by DOROTHY L Sayers, which she later reworked into a novel, one of my favorites in the Lord Peter series. Lord Peter appears in no other films , but there are two well made BBC TV minis , one starring Ian Carmichael and the other starring Edward Petheridge.
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Post by factchecker2point0 on Jun 24, 2021 16:25:10 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 24, 2021 19:30:05 GMT
Double Billed (Powell, that is):
With Powell fresh off of four appearances as Philo Vance at Warner Bros, what strikes as most remarkable about this is MGM's willingness to plug a rival studio's product. And today, as happenstance has it, Time-Warner-HBO (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) owns MGM's Thin Man series by virtue of having acquired the MGM library once owned by Ted Turner.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 24, 2021 23:18:42 GMT
Hercule Poirot. The fictional detective created by writer Agatha Christie is one of her most famous characters. Poirot Appeared in 33 novels and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. He has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including. Austin Trevor who was the first actor to play Hercule Poirot on the big screen, he starred in three British films during the early 1930s: Alibi (1931), Black Coffee (1931) both considered lost films and in Lord Edgware Dies (1934). Dir Henry Edwards. Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (published in 1920). This was the first mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Famous Belgian detective Poirot has fled his homeland during WW1 and has come England as a refugee. An elderly lady has died suddenly at a country estate close to where Poirot is residing, Poirot’s lifelong friend, Captain Hastings seeks him out privately to help solve the suspicious and challenging case… “Agatha Christie's Poirot” is an excellent a British mystery drama television series that ran from1989 to 2013. David Suchet stars with great characterization and became the familiar face of Hercule Poirot. The Mysterious Affair at Styles Directed by Ross Devenish, season 3 episode 1 Sep 1990 is an entertaining feature length film adaptation of the first mystery novel from Christie featuring the skilled detective Hercule Poirot.   
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 25, 2021 1:54:45 GMT
Paul Drake. Fictional private detective in the Perry Mason series of murder mystery novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, a friend and right-hand man to criminal defense lawyer Perry Mason based in Los Angeles. On the big screen Allen Jenkins was the first to play a variation on the Paul Drake character, he is referred to as "Spudsy Drake", in two lively films based on Gardner's series of detective novels, The Case of the Curious Bride and The Case of the Lucky Legs both from 1935, Warren William plays the famed lawyer. Garry Owen played the droll humored private investigator, "Paul Drake" in The Case of the Black Cat (1936) Ricardo Cortez stars as Perry Mason...  Allen Jenkins "Spudsy Drake" ... Warren William Perry Mason   Nedda Harrigan as Nurse Devoe ... Ricardo Cortez as Perry Mason ... Gary Owen as Paul Drake in The Case of the Black Cat (1936) 
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 25, 2021 2:52:05 GMT
Duck Twacy. Famous dicktective. Most renown case was the Great Piggy Bank Robbery where his many arch-enemies came together to confront him for a final showdown.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 25, 2021 4:06:19 GMT
MGM issued The Thin Man series but other studios attempted to ride the coat tails.
RKO got William Powell into their “Star of Midnight” (1935). Powell acts pretty much in “Star of Midnight” as in the The Thin Man except this time he is partnered with Ginger Rogers. Also, he plays a lawyer instead of a private detective but he can still talk rings around a dumb cop as well as banter with Ginger. Of course, Powell could do this over the phone but he is as charming and intelligent as always. Another parallel with “The Thin Man” is that the title character, a missing woman who was the star of a Broadway play called “Midnight” (get it?) is never seen.
MGM itself tried to replicate the success of The Thin Man films with Joel and Garda Sloane, a wisecracking wife and husband detective team. I saw the third and last of the series, “Fast and Furious” (1939), directed by Busby Berkeley. This light comedy/murder mystery stars Franchot Tone and Ann Southern as the Sloans. One of the reasons the series didn’t catch on may be that the leads were different for each film.
Republic Pictures gets into the act with “Tragedy at Midnight” (1942). The Nick and Nora subs are played by John Howard (“The Undying Monster”) and Margaret Lindsay (Nikki in the Ellery Queen series). Howard is a radio personality who solves real-life mysteries on his show (brought to you by Roastie-Toasties, They Can’t Be Beaten But They Can Be Eaten). Fairly complex mystery, good writing. Some of the interplay between Howard and Lindsay, like in The Thin Man series, could even be described as “sparkling.” The screenplay is by Isabel Dawn. Lindsay seems a natural at tossing off these lines. Too bad she wasn’t a bigger success in movies, but she had a nice 15 or so year run as a B-movie stalwart occasionally finding herself in a prestige picture (“Jezebel” “Cass Timberlane”).
To contrast The Thin Man, Universal International Pictures came up with “The Fat Man” (1951), directed by William Castle. It was promoted as “Created by Dashiell Hammett” but Hammett had nothing to do with it except lend his name. It began on radio. The Fat Man was a private detective and gourmet diner who had the unlikely moniker of Brad Runyon and was voiced by J. Scott Smart. As the radio show was ending in 1951, a film version was made. For a B-mystery, it’s a pretty good one. Secretary Jayne Meadows hires Runyon to look into the murder of her dentist boss. The only thing missing from the unfortunate dentist’s effects were some x-rays of bridge work belonging to Roy Clark (Rock Hudson – seen only in flashback). Also in the cast is Julie London and renowned circus clown Emmett Kelly in his film debut.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 25, 2021 4:25:01 GMT
Nurse Sarah Keate #1: While The Patient Slept, directed by Ray Enright (1935). Warner Bros-First National. Mignon G. Eberhart was a prolific American mystery writer from the Golden Age. She has been dubbed as the “American Agatha Christie” even through the two women’s books were not alike. For one thing, Eberhart wrote most of her 59 puzzlers as “standalone” books – no continuing characters. One exception is a 7 book mystery series featuring Nurse Sarah Keate and her private eye boyfriend Lance O’Leary. This movie is based on Eberhart’s second novel. A dying rich man summons his feuding relatives to his old dark house outside of town as a rain, thunder, and lightning storm rages. Fairly typical plotting. A good ending with an unexpected culprit.
Nurse Sarah Keate #3: The Patient In Room 18, directed by Bobby Connolly and Crane Wilbur (1938). Warner Bros-First National. Ann Sheridan played Nurse Keate in two of the film series including here with “Room 18,” based on Mignon G. Eberhart’s first novel published in 1929. Both of the Keate films with Sheridan also had her private detective boyfriend Lance O’Leary. In these two movies, O’Leary was advanced to the lead role and Nurse Keate became his sidekick rather than his partner even though she does some detecting on her own and shows some attitude.
Nurse Sarah Keate #4: Mystery House / Noel M. Smith (1938). Warner Bros. After a coroner’s jury rules her father’s shooting death a suicide, Gwen Kingery (Anne Nagel) hires P.I. Lance O’Leary (Dick Purcell) to investigate. O’Leary had been suggested by Sarah Keate (Ann Sheridan) who was the nurse to Gwen’s elderly and perpetually angry aunt. Gwen then invites all the guests who had been present at the hunting lodge at the time of her father’s death to return so O’Leary can question them. More murders occur and secrets revealed before O’Leary solves the case. Nurse Keate is once again the sidekick ( but who discovers a couple of important clues) in the film.
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Post by truecristian on Jun 25, 2021 4:46:16 GMT
The first 5 minutes of the movie told me all I needed to know. It's crap, pure and simple. I've seen 6 year olds act better. I saved 2 hours and 15 minutes I can use on watching something better.
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Post by marshamae on Jun 25, 2021 14:23:24 GMT
MGM issued The Thin Man series but other studios attempted to ride the coat tails. RKO got William Powell into their “Star of Midnight” (1935). Powell acts pretty much in “Star of Midnight” as in the The Thin Man except this time he is partnered with Ginger Rogers. Also, he plays a lawyer instead of a private detective but he can still talk rings around a dumb cop as well as banter with Ginger. Of course, Powell could do this over the phone but he is as charming and intelligent as always. Another parallel with “The Thin Man” is that the title character, a missing woman who was the star of a Broadway play called “Midnight” (get it?) is never seen. MGM itself tried to replicate the success of The Thin Man films with Joel and Garda Sloane, a wisecracking wife and husband detective team. I saw the third and last of the series, “Fast and Furious” (1939), directed by Busby Berkeley. This light comedy/murder mystery stars Franchot Tone and Ann Southern as the Sloans. One of the reasons the series didn’t catch on may be that the leads were different for each film. Republic Pictures gets into the act with “Tragedy at Midnight” (1942). The Nick and Nora subs are played by John Howard (“The Undying Monster”) and Margaret Lindsay (Nikki in the Ellery Queen series). Howard is a radio personality who solves real-life mysteries on his show (brought to you by Roastie-Toasties, They Can’t Be Beaten But They Can Be Eaten). Fairly complex mystery, good writing. Some of the interplay between Howard and Lindsay, like in The Thin Man series, could even be described as “sparkling.” The screenplay is by Isabel Dawn. Lindsay seems a natural at tossing off these lines. Too bad she wasn’t a bigger success in movies, but she had a nice 15 or so year run as a B-movie stalwart occasionally finding herself in a prestige picture (“Jezebel” “Cass Timberlane”). To contrast The Thin Man, Universal International Pictures came up with “The Fat Man” (1951), directed by William Castle. It was promoted as “Created by Dashiell Hammett” but Hammett had nothing to do with it except lend his name. It began on radio. The Fat Man was a private detective and gourmet diner who had the unlikely moniker of Brad Runyon and was voiced by J. Scott Smart. As the radio show was ending in 1951, a film version was made. For a B-mystery, it’s a pretty good one. Secretary Jayne Meadows hires Runyon to look into the murder of her dentist boss. The only thing missing from the unfortunate dentist’s effects were some x-rays of bridge work belonging to Roy Clark (Rock Hudson – seen only in flashback). Also in the cast is Julie London and renowned circus clown Emmett Kelly in his film debut. The Fat Man was filming as Hammett appeared before a New York judge about acting as Trustee of the Civil Rights Congress bail Fund. He refused to testify and went to jail, his income as a writer disappeared and he was not credited as a writer for film for another 20 years, 10 years after his death.
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Post by london777 on Jun 25, 2021 19:09:33 GMT
The first 5 minutes of the movie told me all I needed to know. It's crap, pure and simple. I've seen 6 year olds act better. I saved 2 hours and 15 minutes I can use on watching something better. Which poster said what about which film? Does not sound like planetx's literary style.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 26, 2021 6:05:11 GMT
Nurse Sarah Keate #1: While The Patient Slept, directed by Ray Enright (1935). Warner Bros-First National. Mignon G. Eberhart was a prolific American mystery writer from the Golden Age. Thanks so much for your very interesting additions mike6 and especially so for the introduction to the crime fiction author Mignon G. Eberhart and the classic film adaptations... 
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Post by truecristian on Jun 26, 2021 18:56:08 GMT
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Post by london777 on Jun 26, 2021 19:07:31 GMT
Excellent movie. One of the best war films ever. A bit light on private detectives though.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 28, 2021 0:13:21 GMT
Mad Holiday (1936) Dir George B. Seitz was adapted by noted screenwriters Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf from the novel Murder in a Chinese Theatre by Joseph Santley American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer. Florence Ryerson was an author, playwright and screenwriter credited with the Fu Manchu and Philo Vance series she also famously co-scripted The Wizard of OZ. She wrote many short stories a detective mystery book published in 1933 Blind Man's Bluff was co-authored with husband Collin Clements. Mad Holiday is a fun mystery, a private detective comedy clearly in the realm of the Thin Man capers, you could say a spoof on the genre. Edmund Lowe plays actor Philip Trent who has had enough of starring in mystery movies playing detective Shelby Lane, the Philo Vance-like sleuth of the Peter Dean crime novels. Wrapping up his latest case, Trent announces he is sick of Lane and Dean and off to take a cruise. His detective career is over. Escaping on a cruise ship, not far out from port a beautiful girl shows up claiming to be in danger and a corpse shows up in this room... Not an exceptional film, but it is charming and swiftly paced. With attractive leads in Lowe and Landi, there is superior cast of supporting actors, among them Ted Healy of Stooges fame as Mert Morgan....  
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 28, 2021 0:27:12 GMT
Mad Holiday (1936) Dir George B. Seitz was adapted by noted screenwriters Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf from the novel Murder in a Chinese Theatre by Joseph Santley American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer. Florence Ryerson was an author, playwright and screenwriter credited with the Fu Manchu and Philo Vance series she also famously co-scripted The Wizard of OZ. She wrote many short stories a detective mystery book published in 1933 Blind Man's Bluff was co-authored with husband Collin Clements. Mad Holiday is a fun mystery, a private detective comedy clearly in the realm of the Thin Man capers, you could say a spoof on the genre. Edmund Lowe plays actor Philip Trent who has had enough of starring in mystery movies playing detective Shelby Lane, the Philo Vance-like sleuth of the Peter Dean crime novels. Wrapping up his latest case, Trent announces he is sick of Lane and Dean and off to take a cruise. His detective career is over. Escaping on a cruise ship, not far out from port a beautiful girl shows up claiming to be in danger and a corpse shows up in this room... Not an exceptional film, but it is charming and swiftly paced. With attractive leads in Lowe and Landi, there is superior cast of supporting actors, among them Ted Healy of Stooges fame as Mert Morgan.... Sounds like a good one. Right up my proverbial alley.
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