Mystery Course Syllabi

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Podcasts on mystery films, Warner Archive.

The latest episode of the Warner Archive Collection podcast discusses the release of Bill Elliott Detective Mysteries (1955–57), a DVD of films with Elliott as a detective working in the LA sheriff's office:

Calling Homicide (a police officer's death is connected to the murder of a head of a modeling school)

Chain of Evidence (man with amnesia faces murder charges)

Dial Red-O (disturbed veteran is accused of killing his wife)

Footsteps in the Night (Elliott on the trail of a strangler)

Sudden Danger (son seeks his father's murderer)

Other podcast episodes include:
  • Episode on Terror on a Train (1953, with Glenn Ford) and The Decks Ran Red (1958, with James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge)
  • Episode on The Mask of Dimitrios (1944, from the novel by Eric Ambler), A Dangerous Profession (1949), Duffy of San Quentin (1954), The Fall Guy (1947, from Cornell Woolrich's "Cocaine"/"C-Jag"), FBI Code 98 (1963), and Loophole (1954)
  • Episode on the Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection that features the spinster detective created by Stuart Palmer and popularized by Edna May Oliver

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