Old detective movies

OLD DETECTIVE MOVIES

If you have not discovered the various series of detectives movies made in the period of roughly 1935-1955, you are missing a piece of excellent entertainment – which is quite inexpensive these days, relatively speaking. If you don’t want your kids watching modern day TV, these are a great alternative.

Boston Blackie
The Falcon
The Saint
Mr. Moto
Charlie Chan
Philo Vance
Bulldog Drummond
Torchy Blaine
Mr. Wong
The Thin Man
Michael Shayne
And others less notable, but still very entertaining.
And of course, the epitome of them all – the incomparable Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

Many of these were later radio shows, and in a few cases also early television series, and there were other great detective radio shows that were never made into movies.