Slightly Honorable
"WHAT A MURDER!...or even two or three? Here's drama in this ROAR!!"
5.1
NR
1939
85 min
"WHAT A MURDER!...or even two or three? Here's drama in this ROAR!!"
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Pat O'Brien
John Webb
Edward Arnold
Vincent Cushing
Broderick Crawford
Russel Sampson
Ruth Terry
Anne Seymour
Alan Dinehart
District Attorney George Joyce
Claire Dodd
Alma Brehmer
Phyllis Brooks
Sarilla Cushing
Eve Arden
Miss Ater
Douglass Dumbrille
George Taylor
Bernard Nedell
Pete Godena
Douglas Fowley
Madder
Ernest Truex
P. Hemingway Collins