List of comedy mystery films
Appearance
Comedy mystery is a film genre combining elements of comedy and mystery fiction. Though the genre arguably peaked in the 1930s and 1940s, comedy mystery films have been continually produced since.[1]
Below is a chronological list of comedy mystery films.
1930s
[edit]- The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
- The Mandarin Mystery
- The Princess Comes Across
- Murder on a Bridle Path
- After the Thin Man
- Satan Met a Lady
- Blondes at Work
- Fast Company
- Nancy Drew... Detective
- The Lady Vanishes[2]
- The Mad Miss Manton
- There's Always a Woman
- Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Torchy Blane in Panama
- Torchy Gets Her Man
- The Cat and the Canary
- It's a Wonderful World
- Nancy Drew... Reporter
- Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown
- Torchy Runs for Mayor
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
- Another Thin Man
1940s
[edit]- Footsteps in the Dark
- Murder by Invitation
- Whistling in the Dark - better-known remake, starring Red Skelton
- Shadow of the Thin Man