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1929 Mystery Movies

Public list by WPS with 27 movies or TV shows/series

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The Thirteenth Chair(1929)

NR
| 1h 12min | Mystery
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.

The Canary Murder Case(1929)

PG
| 1h 22min | Crime, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

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Seven Footprints to Satan(1929)

NR
| 1h 17min | Crime, Comedy, Horror
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.

The Voice of the City(1929)

1h 21min | Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.

Directed by Willard Mack - With Robert Ames

The Unholy Night(1929)

1h 34min | Mystery, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

One dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.

Darkened Rooms(1929)

1h 6min | Mystery
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.

Directed by Louis J. Gasnier - With Evelyn Brent

The Ace of Scotland Yard(1929)

NR
| 3h 35min | Drama, Action, Crime

From the Universal synopsis: Retired Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard learns that Lord Blanton has acquired the sacred "Love Ring"---a cursed jewel that has brought grief to its previous owners. Prince Darius seeks to obtain the ring, and the mummy of a princess of an ancient country to return them to his homeland.

The Studio Murder Mystery(1929)

1h 2min | Mystery
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.

Directed by Frank Tuttle - With Neil Hamilton

The Greene Murder Case(1929)

1h 9min | Mystery
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes(1929)

1h 11min | Mystery

The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.

The Hound of the Baskervilles(1929)

1h 16min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

Seven Keys to Baldpate(1929)

1h 13min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

Directed by Reginald Barker - With Richard Dix
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Painted Faces(1929)

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.

Directed by Albert S. Rogell

Strange Cargo(1929)

1h 15min | Mystery

On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)

Directed by Arthur Gregor

The Fatal Warning(1929)

3h 20min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.

The Woman in White(1929)

NR
| 1h 7min | Crime, Mystery

Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie go to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde to his mysterious mansion to be married. Once there, many strange and disturbing things happen. She meets a girl who has been a victim of Sir Percival's scheming in order to get her fortune.

Behind That Curtain(1929)

NR
| 1h 31min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
2.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk.

Directed by Irving Cummings - With Warner Baxter

The Argyle Case(1929)

1h 25min | Horror

A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.

The Drake Case(1929)

54min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house.

Directed by Edward Laemmle

The Silent House(1929)

1h 28min | Crime, Mystery

A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.

Directed by Walter Forde - With Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin, Arthur Pusey, Gerald Rawlinson

The House of Secrets(1929)

NR
| 1h 11min | Mystery

A young American man arrives in London to claim an estate he has inherited. One of the conditions is that he signs a paper stating he will never sell the estate. When he arrives at the estate he now owns, he runs into a ring of American gangsters there and discovers that the estate is the site of some buried pirate treasure.

Directed by Edmund Lawrence - With Joseph Striker

The Peacock Fan(1929)

NR
| 1h | Mystery

A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.

Directed by Phil Rosen - With Lucien Prival

The Hate Ship(1929)

1h | Mystery

A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.

Directed by Norman Walker - With Jameson Thomas

The Lone Wolf's Daughter(1929)

NR
| 1h 12min | Crime, Mystery

Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.

Directed by Albert S. Rogell - With Bert Lytell

Adventures Inc.(1929)

1h 2min | Crime

Based on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an espionage ring.

Unmasked(1929)

NR
| 1h 2min | Mystery, Horror

During a dinner party at the Brookfield family estate, private detective Craig Kennedy relates a story of one of his unsolved murder cases. What Kennedy knows, and the other guests do not, is that the person who was the killer in the unsolved mystery is in the room, and Kennedy makes plans to expose him.

House of Horror(1929)

1h 5min | Mystery, Comedy, Horror

House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.

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