White Fire (1954), Alias Boston Blackie (1942), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1930), One Mysterious Night (1944), Men at Work (1990), The Ghost Camera (1933), Yankee Fakir (1947), Dead Cert (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Amateur Detectives movies.
Storyline: American Gregor Stevens arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets Yvonne Durante, a night-club entertainer and part-time smuggler, who aids him in his quest to prove the innocence of his brother, despite the risks she faces from her diamond-smuggling confederates.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: sailor, singer, nightclub owner, gangster, inspector, brother, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.
Plot Keywords: reformed criminal, police officer, convict, dancer, clown, musician, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer William Magee accepts a wager that he can finish writing a book in 24 hours, and travels to the deserted inn Baldpate, a summer resort now in the midst of winter, including a blizzard, to finish his opus. Told his is the only key, Magee is interrupted numerous times in the first hours by a parade of characters who appear to be in search of $200,000 meant as a bribe for a local politician, and who all seem to have an only key. As the situations become as outlandish as any he could concoct for his novel, Magee lets his infatuation with one of the "guests" get in the way of writing and solving the plot behind all that's happening at Baldpate.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: writer, sheriff, agent, mayor, hermit, criminal, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit.
Plot Keywords: thief, sidekick, inspector, reporter, manager, sister, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a telescope with which he observes his neighbors. One evening he sees a man giving a female neighbor a hard time. As she leaves he shoots the man with a pellet gun. Hiding, he and James miss two men strangling the man and leaving with the body. When he appears in a can on their route they are afraid and hide the body, fearing that they may be implicated in the death. Trying to crack the case, they spy on the woman, join up with a slightly to majorly crazed Vietnam vet, kidnap a pizza man and help to protect the ecology.
Plot Keywords: garbage collector, politician, veteran, hit man, surfer, pizza delivery man, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to murder him during his high wire act at the next performance.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: chemist, amateur sleuth, young woman, detective, coroner, maid, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Yankee" Davis and his partner,"Shaggy" Hartley, a couple of carny-type traveling (usually just ahead of the law) pitchmen with their own tent to pitch from, arrive in a small Arizona town, close to the Mexican border. Davis falls in love with Mary Mason, daughter of a Border Patrolman. Mr. Mason is murdered, and Davis sets out to find the killer, and thinks the town's richest citizen might know something about it.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: traveling salesman, border patrol officer, prospector, friend, informant, love interest, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York (Scott Antony) suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the same fate as his friend.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: horse owner, widow, jockey, friend, bookie, dark, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From the opening shot of a Jurassic Park-esque reptilian eye, you know you are in for a wild ride. As Mick "Crocodile" Dundee sits in a canoe sharpening his famous knife, a monstrous croc hides somewhere in the deep. The croc suddenly attacks, tearing Mick's boat to pieces and leaving him and mate Jacko up a tree. Life for Mick can only get easier, right? When Mick arrives at home, he discovers longtime companion Sue's newspaper-mogul father has called, and needs her help on an article at the paper's Los Angeles branch. Mick, who recognizes his importance in the modernizing bush is now no more than as a tourist attraction, agrees to join her, and together Mick, Sue and son Mikey head for Los Angeles. Here the adventure truly begins, as Mick and Jacko brave a cowboy bar where the horsemen are of a different color, and a Hollywood film party where everyone seems interested in Mick's mate Malcolm "Mal" Gibson's colorful exploits. Sue's article soon leads to a sleazy film producer, so ...
Plot Keywords: hunter, reporter, son, schoolteacher, friend, charming, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tana, beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of stealing the sacred jewels and of the murder of Dozan, thus preventing the natives from mass rebellion against the whites. Jim, the island police officer, is wounded and Tana and Harley nurse him back to health. Jim gathers evidence that leads him to Boggs and Carlton. Malu, a native boy in love with Tana, is murdered before he can give Jim some important evidence.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, police officer, native, criminal, innkeeper, henchman, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A graduate student (Elijah Wood) and a professor (John Hurt) try to put their philosophical differences aside to solve an elderly woman's apparent murder.
Plot Keywords: professor, graduate student, thrilling, tense, oxford university, secret, amateur detectives ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A teen sleuth (Alicia Silverstone) thinks a classmate's murder is part of a series of West Coast slayings linked to a traveling carnival.
Plot Keywords: high-school student, cadet, mother, father, cop, best friend, brash ...
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