Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)
A KILLER IN THE BAG! WOMEN IN HIS HAIR!
Género : Misterio
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 9M
Director : James P. Hogan
Escritor : Eric Taylor
Sinopsis
Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.
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Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
Doctor and dedicated husband embarks on a murderous quest for vengeance against the men who raped his wife.
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El ex convicto Johnny se ve obligado a tirar de un atraco con el que no quiere tener nada que ver. El jefe de la mafia "Shrewd" Eddie tiene un millón de dólares sucios en efectivo escondidos en su casa, esperando ser robados. Pero lo que Johnny no sabe es que otros siete criminales muy peligrosos también tienen planes de robar el dinero ...
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
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A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.
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Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
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A private eye (Richard Travis) and his girlfriend (Sheila Ryan) avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.