Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

A Shot in the Dark (1935)

A Shot in the Dark poster
Directed by
Charles Lamont
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college campus is shaken when a student is found dead. A detective investigates the suspects and clues to solve the murder.

whodunitbrisk-pacedsuspensefullightweightretropuzzle-liketheatricalold-fashioned

What happens

A Shot in the Dark is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Charles Starrett, Robert Warwick and Marion Shilling. Produced by Chesterfield Pictures, it is an adaptation of the novel The Dartmouth Murders by Clifford Orr. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?