1920s Mystery Movies

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The Cat and the Canary(1927)

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.

Directed by Paul Leni - With Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, Creighton Hale, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Edmund Carewe, ...

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The Haunted Castle(1921)

1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his intention to "crash" the festivities. Baroness Safferstätt is expected shortly, and the guests are well-aware of the rumors that Count Oetsch murdered the baroness' late husband. Oetsch refuses to leave, vowing that he will reveal the identity of the real killer. Before the weekend is through, the Count and Baroness will reveal secrets too shocking to be believed!

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Paul Hartmann, Olga Chekhova, Arnold Korff, Paul Bildt, Hermann Vallentin, Julius Falkenstein, ...

London After Midnight(1927)

1h 9min | Horror, Drama

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

The abandoned Balfour House, which former owner was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. (This movie was lost in 1965 during a fire.)

Directed by Tod Browning - With Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, Polly Moran, Claude King, ...

The Man from Beyond(1922)

1h 18min | Mystery, Drama, Adventure, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The Arctic, 1922. After being buried under the ice for a hundred years, Howard Hillary is thawed and revived. When he meets Felice Strange, he recognizes in her the same woman he once loved deeply. But is it really her?

Directed by Burton L. King - With Harry Houdini, Nita Naldi

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One Exciting Night(1922)

| 2h 23min | Mystery, Crime, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Morgan Wallace, Margaret Dale

The Wizard(1927)

| 1h | Mystery, Horror

A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.

Directed by Richard Rosson - With Edmund Lowe

The Acquittal(1923)

1h 10min | Mystery

When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Claire Windsor, Norman Kerry, Richard Travers, Barbara Bedford, Frederick Vroom, Ben Deeley, ...

The Lost Express(1925)

48min | Mystery

Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.

Directed by J. P. McGowan

The Dying Detective(1921)

28min

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Cecil Humphreys, Joseph Tozer

The Gorilla(1927)

1h 20min | Thriller, Horror

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

Directed by Alfred Santell - With Charles Murray, Fred Kelsey, Alice Day, Tully Marshall, Walter Pidgeon, Aggie Herring, ...

Freedom of the Press(1928)

1h 2min | Mystery, Crime

When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.

Directed by George Melford

The House Without a Key(1926)

3h 30min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller

A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'.

Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet - With Allene Ray, Walter Miller

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The Look Out Girl(1928)

55min

The lookout girl for the notorious Mowbray gang tries to leave her gangster past by marrying a wealthy doctor, but her past catches up with her very quickly when the gang finds her.

Directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald - With Jacqueline Logan

The Bedroom Window(1924)

| 1h 10min | Mystery

William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book mystery tale, the film is lifted from the ordinary by the expertise of DeMille and the charm of leading lady May McAvoy. She plays the daughter of a murder victim, while Ricardo Cortez co-stars as the Accused. Cortez is saved from the chair by his aunt Ethel Wales, a mystery writer. The real culprit is...well, keep your eye on the least likely, most cooperative member of the cast.

Directed by William Churchill deMille - With May McAvoy, Malcolm McGregor, Ricardo Cortez

The Hound of the Baskervilles(1921)

1h 40min | Mystery

After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Lewis Gilbert

The Bat(1926)

| 1h 26min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

Directed by Roland West - With Tullio Carminati, Jewel Carmen, Louise Fazenda, Emily Fitzroy, George Beranger, Arthur Housman, ...

The Pleasure Buyers(1925)

1h 10min | Mystery, Romance / Love

Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.

Directed by Chester Withey - With Irene Rich, Clive Brook, Gayne Whitman, June Marlowe, Chester Conklin, Don Alvarado, ...

K - The Unknown(1924)

| 1h 20min | Mystery

Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.

Directed by Harry A. Pollard - With Virginia Valli, Percy Marmont, Margarita Fischer

Seven Keys to Baldpate(1925)

1h 6min | Comedy, Thriller, Mystery

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer - With Douglas MacLean

The Passing of Mr. Quin(1928)

1h 40min | Mystery

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Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott - With Stewart Rome, Ursula Jeans, Clifford Heatherley

Der Sprung ins Dunkle(1920)

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Directed by Ernst Reicher - With Lia Eibenschütz, Stella Harf, Ernst Reicher

For the Defense(1922)

50min | Drama

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Directed by Paul Powell - With Ethel Clayton, William Powell

The Sign of Four(1923)

1h 23min

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Eille Norwood, Isobel Elsom, Arthur Cullin

The Valley of Ghosts(1930)

Crime

'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

Directed by G. B. Samuelson - With Miriam Seegar, Ian Hunter, Derrick De Marney

Back to Liberty(1927)

Adventure, Crime, Drama

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Directed by Bernard F. McEveety

The Amazing Partnership(1921)

A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.

Directed by George Ridgwell - With Milton Rosmer

At the Villa Rose(1920)

1h 17min | Crime, Drama

Inspector Hanaud is asked to investigate a murder in which a young woman is accused of killing her wealthy employer in a Riviera mansion and then running away. She is innocent, but the villain is able to make her seem guilty. Hanaud uncovers the truth, that the murder was the result of a jewel robbery gone wrong.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Norman Page, Manora Thew, Langhorn Burton, Teddy Arundell

The Lone Wolf(1924)

| 1h | Mystery

A silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.

Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor - With Dorothy Dalton

One Hour Before Dawn(1920)

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Directed by Henry King - With H. B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson, Frank Leigh, Howard Davies, Edmund Burns, Adele Farrington, ...

The Devil's Foot(1921)

20min

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) is on vacation when he stumbles into a house and discovers two bodies. Both have been dead for hours but there aren't any visible signs of violence and soon other bodies start to pile up.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Harvey Braban, Hugh Buckler

1920s Mystery Movies

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The Cat and the Canary(1927)

The Haunted Castle(1921)

London After Midnight(1927)

The Man from Beyond(1922)

One Exciting Night(1922)

The Wizard(1927)

The Acquittal(1923)

The Lost Express(1925)

The Dying Detective(1921)

The Gorilla(1927)

Freedom of the Press(1928)

The House Without a Key(1926)

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The Look Out Girl(1928)

The Bedroom Window(1924)

The Hound of the Baskervilles(1921)

The Bat(1926)

The Pleasure Buyers(1925)

K - The Unknown(1924)

Seven Keys to Baldpate(1925)

The Passing of Mr. Quin(1928)

Der Sprung ins Dunkle(1920)

For the Defense(1922)

The Sign of Four(1923)

The Valley of Ghosts(1930)

Back to Liberty(1927)

The Amazing Partnership(1921)

At the Villa Rose(1920)

The Lone Wolf(1924)

One Hour Before Dawn(1920)

The Devil's Foot(1921)

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