Super-Sleuth
1937•1h 10m•
★5.6(5 ratings)
MysteryComedy
Overview
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Director
Benjamin StoloffWriters
Watchlist
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Doris Duane, a film actress
The runtime is 70 minutes (1h 10m).
The film was directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
The screenplay was written by Gertrude Purcell and Ernest Pagano.
Cinematography was handled by Joseph H. August.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0029622.
1923
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
2003
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
1956
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
1994
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
1934
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
1980
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
1921
Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a long moustache and was clad in black", while Chico was probably his "chuckling [Italian] henchman". Zeppo portrayed a playboy who was the owner of a nightclub in which most of the action took place, including "a cabaret, [which allowed] the inclusion of a dance number". The final shot showed Groucho "in ball and chain, trudging slowly off into the gloaming". Harpo, in a rare moment of romantic glory, gets the girl in the end. This film is lost.
1990
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
2002
Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.
Average
5 votes
Super-Sleuth
Released
NR
English
United States of America
