Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), The Hidden Room (1949), The Verdict (1946), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Robbery (1967), The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963), The Woman in Green (1945), Villain (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Scotland Yard movies.
Storyline: Ann Lake has recently settled in England with her daughter, Bunny. When she goes to retrieve her daughter after the girl's first day at school, no one has any record of Bunny having been registered. When even the police can find no trace that the girl ever existed, they wonder if the child was only a fantasy of Ann's. When Ann's brother backs up the police's suspicions, she appears to be a mentally-disturbed individual. Are they right?—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: mother, brother, superintendent, landlord, retiree, daughter, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs of his wife Storm, plots a seemingly 'perfect' revenge against her latest lover, American Bill Kronin. Catching them in the act, he marches Bill off at gunpoint; and from the viewpoint of Storm and the rest of the world, Bill simply vanishes. But there's far more to the meticulously worked out plot than Clive's victims suspect, with the end slowly preparing in his private laboratory. Enter a mild-mannered Scotland Yard man, who seemingly has no clue beyond a missing dog...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, wife, lover, scotland yard detective, butler, american, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man. He takes the blame and is dismissed, replaced by the obnoxious, gloating Buckley. Feeling vengeful, Grodman would like nothing more than to see Buckley look foolish on the job. His friend Victor Emmric, an artist with macabre tastes, wouldn't mind either and soon a mysterious murder occurs that may provide them with the chance.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: superintendent, successor, artist, nephew, politician, crafty, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of organist Dr. Phibes, killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death. He couldn't be the culprit, could he?
Plot Keywords: organist, assistant, surgeon, nurse, creepy, shocking, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: mastermind, thief, wife, convict, inspector, fascinating, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that goes one better. They dress as Police Officers and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the Police/criminal relationship, and the Police and the crooks join forces to catch the impersonating Police Officers, including an armored car robbery in which the Police must help the gangs to set a trap.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: crime boss, police officer, scotland yard agent, thief, impostor, detective, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamorous woman. The fiendish Dr James Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is suspected of being involved.—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, professor moriarty, beautiful woman, police detective, amateur sleuth, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has been a little too loose-lipped, afraid that his gossiping may turn into a grand operatic performance for the coppers. Vic, who enjoys playing at rough trade with his sidekick Wolfe, plans a payroll robbery and directs the blackmailing of Members of Parliament with a taste for unorthodox sex. Scotland Yard Police Inspector Matthews, playing Javert to Vic's Jean Valjean, is moving in on him and the gang. Gang-member Edgar is hospitalized for an ulcer, and Inspector Matthews might be able to make him sing. Will Edgar spill the beans to the coppers before Vic can silence him?—Jon C. Hopwood
Plot Keywords: gang leader, gang members, pimp, parliament member, suspenseful, thrilling, london ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1918, an English family are terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: vampire, werewolf, lady, professor, daughter, fiancé, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A millionaire in London falls for a poor girl with a great singing voice, but his gold-digging past girlfriend tries her best to ruin the relationship.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, murderer, scotland yard agent, police detective, secretary, fiancée, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London. Tariq's task gets complicated as an innocent Muslim is killed by the commando shooters of Scotland Yard. On the other hand, Tariq - a British citizen is himself a suspect in the eyes of his boss, despite his long service in the Scotland Yard.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: muslim, police captain, man, wife, colleague, suspenseful, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis trails international dope smuggler Frank McNally by following his reluctant accomplice, Gina Broger, through the "pickup alleys" of New York, London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and Athens. When Gina is finally arrested by Interpol, she helps Sturgis trace McNally and his $3,000,000 consignment back to New York.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, drug dealer, courier, accomplice, sea captain, police captain, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England. As he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He misses her, but she falls to the ground. As he tries to revive her, he hears a shout for help, then gunshots. As he goes to investigate, the woman drives away with Drummond's car. He is soon able to trace her to nearby Greystone Manor, and when he goes there to meet her, she slips him a note urging him to help her get out of a desperate situation.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: bulldog, beautiful woman, valet, suspenseful, london, scotland yard, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Robert Taine and his wife Cecily live in a village in England. While hunting on some land he has recently purchased, he shoots a load of buckshot at a man he thinks is a poacher but, upon examination, he discovers the man is dead and believes,at first, he has killed him. With the police and the Secret Service chasing him, he trails a suspect to London and this leads him to an espionage gang.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: colonel, spy, driver, operative, wife, scientist, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.
Plot Keywords: scotland yard detective, lord, murderer, murder suspect, murder victim, airy, amusing ...
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