Directors It's elementary, my dear Watson - a mystery movies tournament (1 Viewer)

SteveGon · May 10, 2004

Welcome to the Mystery Movies Tournament!

The List

And Then There Were None

Bad Day at Black Rock

The Big Sleep

Body Double

Body Heat

Blue Velvet

Charade

Chinatown

The Conversation

Cube

Cure

Don't Look Now

Double Indemnity

Dressed to Kill '80

Frenzy

Gaslight '44

Gosford Park

High and Low

The Hound of the Baskervilles '59

The Killers '46

L.A. Confidential

The Lady Vanishes

Last Year at Marienbad

Laura

Le Corbeau

Les Diaboliques

Lone Star

Lost Highway

The Maltese Falcon

The Man Who Knew Too Much '56

Memento

Murder on the Orient Express

Mulholland Dr.

Murder By Death

North By Northwest

Once Upon a Time in America

Out of the Past

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Phenomena

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)

Rashomon

Rear Window

Rebecca

Se7en

Shadow of a Doubt

The Silence of the Lambs

Sleuth

Sorry, Wrong Number

Spellbound

The Spiral Staircase

Stray Dog

Suspicion

Swimming Pool

Tenebrae

The Thin Man

The Third Man

The 39 Steps

The Usual Suspects

The Vanishing

Vertigo

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

The Wicker Man

Witness for the Proscecution

Lew Crippen · May 10, 2004

A fine idea Steve. My first thought I already know pushes the envolope, so I will not nominate Citizen Kane. I’m happy to have you toss any of my noms that don’t fit your definition.

Vertigo

Touch of Evil—often called the greatest ‘B’ movie ever made—personally I put it on the ‘A’ list.

The Cabinet of Dr. Calagri—toss this if you don’t think it a mystry.

Chinatown

SteveGon · May 10, 2004

Not sure about Caligari as my memory of it is too foggy (I've had the DVD for ages but haven't gotten around to watching it). Perhaps someone else can chime in on it.

I'm nominating the 1959 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

I just got the new DVDs of the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the 1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles - I'm gonna watch 'em today after I take my mommy out for a belated Mother's Day dinner.

Edit: also nominating The Third Man.

Lew Crippen · May 10, 2004

My main reason for not nominating this was that I would not have wanted to be responsible for you not having the privilege.

Second:

The Third Man

I’ll also withdraw my nomination of The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, as when I think about it, any mystery is beside the point.

Nominate:

High and Low

george kaplan · May 10, 2004

Nominate:

Rear Window
The Thin Man
The Maltese Falcon
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

(I'd love to nominate dozens more)

Second:

Chinatown
Vertigo

SteveGon · May 10, 2004

Lew, good call on High and Low.

George, you may get more noms, depending on how many participants we get.

My last two noms:

And Then There Were None
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Edit: seconding High and Low and The Thin Man.

Nick Sievers · May 10, 2004

Nominate:

I'll try a couple of recent films.

Memento
Mulholland Drive

Second:

Rear Window
The Maltese Falcon

Lew Crippen · May 10, 2004

Third:

The Maltese Falcon
Rear Window

Jim_K · May 10, 2004

I won't even bother with Nominating any Hitchcock as they'll get in anyway - as they should

Rashômon
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Wicker Man
Profondo rosso

I'll be back later to second & third some of the more obscure films.

Oh & here's some suggestions (don't want any to get overlooked)

North by Northwest
Se7en
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Rebecca
Charade
Suspicion
Double Indemnity
The Big Sleep
Les Diaboliques
A Shot in the Dark
Seconds
Sleuth
The Conversation
Angel Heart
JFK
The Fugitive
L.A. Confidential
Dark City
El Espinazo del diablo
The Game
The Sixth Sense

SteveGon · May 10, 2004

Added Blue Velvet and Gaslight (1944) to the noms list (need to rewatch the 1940 version).

Walter Kittel · May 10, 2004

Nominate:

Laura (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Lone Star (1996)

- Walter.

Bill McA · May 10, 2004

Nominate:
Body Double
Les Diaboliques
Murder on the Orient Express
Once Upon a Time in America

Second:
The Wicker Man
Mulholland Dr.
Blue Velvet
Don't Look Now

Third:
Chinatown
Vertigo

Rob P S · May 10, 2004

Seconding:

Lone Star
Memento

george kaplan · May 10, 2004

Second:

Laura
The Big Sleep

John C. Wilson · May 10, 2004

Nominate:

Out of the Past
North by Northwest
The Killers (1946)
The 39 Steps

Second:

Bad Day at Black Rock
Diabolique
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Third:

The Big Sleep
Laura
The Thin Man

Brook K · May 10, 2004

I'll 3rd
The Wicker Man
High And Low
Mulholland Dr.
Lone Star

I'll 2nd
Profondo Rosso
Body Double
The Killers
Out Of The Past

I'll Nominate:
Picnic At Hanging Rock
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Alphaville
The Big Lebowski

Justin_S · May 10, 2004

I third:

Blue Velvet
Don't Look Now
Diabolique
Memento

I second:

Picnic at Hanging Rock

I nominate:

Se7en
Lost Highway
Nature of the Beast
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

SteveGon · May 11, 2004

Justin, I'm going to ixnay Paradise Lost - I'd rather stick to fictional films.

Some good, offbeat choices (Picnic at Hanging Rock), though I'm surprised at the lack of more traditional mystery flicks.

Nominating:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Murder By Death
Sleuth

Everyone who's participated thus far can have four more noms, secs, and thirds.

george kaplan · May 11, 2004

Nominate:

Double Indemnity
Charade
The Lady Vanishes
The Postman Always Rings Twice

Second:

Gaslight
Murder by Death
North by Northwest
The 39 Steps

Third:

Bad Day at Black Rock
The Killers
Out of the Past
The Third Man

Lew Crippen · May 11, 2004

Nominate:

Body Heat
L’Avventura
The Killers
The Lady Vanishes
The Element of Crime

Second:

Alphaville
The Killers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
North by Northwest
Rashomon
Murder on the Orient Express
The 39 Steps

Third:

Bad Day at Black Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock

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