Best Mystery Films of 1941
I Wake Up Screaming
Well-known New York sports ... career and reputation in ruins, Cornell reveals the truth to Frankie as he proceeds to take his own life. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Topper Returns
The third of producer ... "Topper" characters would be revived for a popular TV series, starring Leo G. Carroll, Anne Jeffreys, and Robert Sterling. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Dressed to Kill
The fourth of 20th ... MacWilliams. The film was based on The Dead Take No Bows, a "Quinny Hite" mystery written by Richard Burke. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Dangerous Lady
Dangerous Lady is yet ... he is. Far better written than most PRC productions, Dangerous Lady is enhanced by Clarence Wheeler's sprightly musical score. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
City of Missing Girls
A girl reporter discovers ... a different trail, a trail that leads directly to her own father, a supposedly upstanding theatrical agent (Boyd Irwin). [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Murder by Invitation
Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and ... closes with one of those "It's only a movie, folks" gags indigenous to the Monogram product of the 1940s. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Shadows on the Stairs
Shadows on the Stairs ... would have done Alfred Hitchcock or Rod Serling proud. Otherwise, Shadows on the Stairs is standard stuff, standardly produced. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Roar of the Press
Ace police reporter Wally ... of Roar of the Press includes three talented actresses who deserved better: Betty Compson, Evelyn Knapp, and Dorothy Lee. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
You're out of Luck
The curious but harmonious ... do your duty" routines that, in certain communities with heavily black populations, he was billed as the film's star. [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
Criminals Within
Talented B-picture director Joseph ... starring assignments. The "gimmick" in Criminals Within is a dangerous new explosive formula-and this was four years before Hiroshima! [ best mystery films - 1941 ]
