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33-498: The Crimson Canary is a 1945 American mystery film directed by John Hoffman and written by Henry Blankfort and Peggy Phillips. The film stars Noah Beery Jr. , Lois Collier , John Litel , Steven Geray , Claudia Drake and Danny Morton. The film was released on November 9, 1945, by Universal Pictures . Writing in AllMovie , writer and film critic Hal Erickson described the film as "an offbeat murder mystery," and that "[although]

66-453: A crime or a puzzle , usually a murder , which must then be solved by policemen , private detectives , or amateur sleuths. The viewer is presented with a series of suspects who have a motive to commit the crime but did not actually do it, and whom the investigator must eliminate during the course of the investigation. At times the viewer is presented with information not available to the main character. The central character usually explores

99-585: A pulp magazine (called Nick Carter Detective Magazine ) that ran from 1933 to 1936. Since the Doc Savage character had basically been given Nick's background, Nick Carter was now recast as more of a hard-boiled detective. Novels featuring Carter continued to appear through the 1950s, by which time there was also a popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Detective , which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System network from 1943 to 1955. Following

132-420: A decade. Jock MacGregor was the producer-director of scripts by Alfred Bester , Milton J. Kramer, David Kogan and others. Background music was supplied by organists Hank Sylvern, Lew White and George Wright. Patsy Bowen, Nick's assistant, was portrayed by Helen Choate until mid-1946 and then Charlotte Manson stepped into the role. Nick and Patsy's friend was reporter Scubby Wilson (John Kane). Nick's contact at

165-732: A long and varied film history, with three countries producing films based on it. In 1908, the French film company Éclair engaged Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset to make a serial film based on the Nick Carter novels which were then being published in France by the German publisher Eichler. Nick Carter, le roi des détectives , with Pierre Bressol in the title role, was released in six episodes in late 1908, and enjoyed considerable success. Further adaptations followed with Nouvelles aventures de Nick Carter in 1909, and

198-542: A memoir by an RAF pilot named Nick Carter, published in 2000, and a 2005 release entitled Brotherhood , which is actually an autobiography of singer Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys . The 100th Killmaster novel— Nick Carter 100 —was accompanied by an essay on the 1890s version, and a short story featuring the character; that marked one of the few times the Killmaster series acknowledged its historical roots. None of

231-541: A television pilot, The Adventures of Nick Carter , which was set in the Victorian era , It was shown as a rare made-for-TV installment of the ABC Sunday Night Movie , which normally featured theatrical releases edited for broadcast. The Czechoslovakian movie Dinner for Adele (1977) is a parody inspired by Nick Carter's pulp magazine adventures. It features "America's most famous detective" visiting Prague at

264-429: A variety of formats over more than a century. The character was first conceived by Ormond G. Smith and created by John R. Coryell. Carter headlined his own magazine for years, and was then part of a long-running series of novels from 1964 to 1990. Films were created based on Carter in France, Czechoslovakia and Hollywood. Nick Carter has also appeared in many comic books and in radio programs. Nick Carter first appeared in

297-860: The Crime Doctor , Warren William as the Lone Wolf and Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. These smaller budget films led to more major productions such as John Huston 's The Maltese Falcon (1941) while Murder, My Sweet (1944) introduced the character Philip Marlowe to film. Marlowe would appear again in The Big Sleep (1946) while other films author Martin Rubin deemed as notable detective mysteries included Laura (1944). These detective films drew upon thriller and thriller-related genres with their nocturnal atmosphere and style influenced by expressionism . They often overlapped with film noir , which arose in

330-453: The silent film era, including numerous films involving Sherlock Holmes, Boston Blackie and The Lone Wolf . Mystery and detective films were among the most popular genres of the silent film era. This ranged to American, British, German and Danish adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and European series like Nick Carter , Nat Pinkerton and Miss Nobody. With the beginning of sound film , mystery film series came into their own with Philo Vance in

363-741: The story paper New York Weekly (Vol. 41 No. 46, September 18, 1886) in a 13-week serial, "The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square "; the character was conceived by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith , and realized by John R. Coryell . Coryell retired from writing Nick Carter novels and the series was taken over by Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey , who wrote 1,076 novels and stories from 1890 until his suicide in 1922. The character proved popular enough to headline its own magazine, Nick Carter Weekly . The serialized stories in Nick Carter Weekly were also reprinted as stand-alone titles under

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396-535: The 1929 film The Canary Murder Case .A series of films continued in until 1947. Other series followed such as Charlie Chan which began in 1931 and ended in 1949 with 44 films produced. In the 1930s, most of the major Hollywood film studios produced mystery series, with MGM having Nick and Nora Charles and Joel and Garda Sloane, Warner Bros. having Perry Mason , Torchy Blane , Brass Bancroft and Nancy Drew . Universal had Bill Crane while Fox had Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto . American mystery film series of

429-565: The 1930s predominantly relied on mystery literature for inspiration. About every character from the 1930s drew from literature, such as Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, Thatcher Colt , Perry Mason, and Mr. Wong . The 1930s featured many female detectives of various ages from Nancy Drew, Torchy Blane and Hildegarde Withers while the 1940s had none. Productions in the 1930s were occasionally A-budget pictures such as The Black Camel (1931), Aresene Lupin (1932) and The Thin Man (1934). By

462-527: The 1940s these series were predominantly produced as b-movies , with nearly no mystery series being developed by the 1950s. Around the 2020s a wave of popular theatrical straight mystery films were released theatrically including Kenneth Brannagh 's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Rian Johnson 's Knives Out (2019) as well as on streaming services with the parodic Murder Mystery (2019) starring Adam Sandler . Mystery films mainly focus on

495-549: The 1940s, film detectives came from multiple sources such as radio and comic strips and many others had original scripts. MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount had generally halted their production of mystery films by 1942 leaving production to these films being made by RKO , Columbia , Universal and other more minor studios. This led to what author Ron Backer described as 1940s mystery films as being "almost always B-productions" with actors who were "past their prime". These included Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, Warner Baxter as

528-637: The Brazilian comic artist Renato Silva published a comic strip starring Nick Carter published in the comic book Suplemento Juvenil. Nick Carter and Chick Carter appeared in comics published by Street & Smith from 1940 to 1949. Nick appeared in The Shadow Comics , then moved to Army & Navy Comics and Doc Savage Comics briefly, before moving back to The Shadow Comics . Some of these appearances were in text stories. Chick appeared in The Shadow Comics , some of which were in text stories. There

561-608: The Killmaster book series. The Hotel in Chicago (1920), The Passenger in the Straitjacket (1922), Women Who Commit Adultery (1922), and Only One Night (1922) are among the silent films made in Germany featuring Nick Carter. Walter Pidgeon portrays Nick Carter in a trilogy of films released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer : Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939); Phantom Raiders (1940) and Sky Murder (1940). Though MGM owned

594-567: The New Magnet Library imprint. By 1915, Nick Carter Weekly had ceased publication and Street & Smith had replaced it with Detective Story Magazine , which focused on a more varied cast of characters. There was a brief attempt at reviving Carter in 1924–27 in Detective Story Magazine , but it was not successful. In the 1930s, due to the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage , Street & Smith revived Nick Carter in

627-399: The Nick Carter series of books carried author credits, although it is known that several of the earliest volumes were written by Michael Avallone , and that Valerie Moolman and NYT bestselling author Gayle Lynds wrote others, making this the first series of its kind to be written in significant part by women. Bill Crider is another author identified with Nick Carter. The Nick Carter name

660-507: The Nile (2022). Other variations of included Rian Johnson 's Knives Out which was not an adaptation of a golden age work, but was Johnson's first foray into the "puzzle-mystery" style, and was the second highest-grossing film in America in 2019. Nick Carter (character) Nick Carter is a fictional character who began as a dime novel private detective in 1886 and has appeared in

693-457: The beginning of the 20th century and solving a case involving a dangerous carnivorous plant (the Adele of the title). The Slovak actor Michal Dočolomanský played Nick Carter. Nick Carter first came to radio as The Return of Nick Carter . Then Nick Carter, Master Detective , with Lon Clark in the title role, began April 11, 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well over

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726-612: The character was revived for a confrontation with a master criminal in Zigomar contre Nick Carter in 1912. American actor Eddie Constantine played the title roles in the French -made spy films Nick Carter va tout casser (1964) and Nick Carter et le trèfle rouge (1965). In one curiously circular and self-referential scene, Constantine (as Carter) enters a house where he finds a large collection of Nick Carter pulp magazines and other Nick Carter memorabilia. Both films are unconnected to

759-417: The classical mystery fiction, such as the parodic Murder Mystery starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston which was one of Netflix's most popular films of 2019. Sandberg noted that only by the 2020s, specifically with Kenneth Branagh 's 2017 The Murder on the Orient Express had the genre been financially successful again with more than $ 350 million grossed worldwide, leading to a sequel Death on

792-416: The early 1900s, several other Sherlock Holmes likes characters appeared such as Boston Blackie and The Lone Wolf . Several series of mystery films started in the 1930s with major studios featuring detectives like Nick and Nora Charles , Perry Mason , Nancy Drew and Charlie Chan . While original mystery film series were based on novels, by the 1940s many were sourced from comics and radio series. Towards

825-473: The large volume of detective films released in the 1910s either owed to Sherlock Holmes but that contemporary reviews such as that of Moving Picture World in 1911 bemoaned the lack of a proper Sherlock Holmes adaptation in "Doctor Doyle's finished style." By 1915, the same trade paper stated that "strange as it may seem, the story of crime mystery is fast degenerating into one of stock properties." There were several mystery and detective films produced during

858-427: The mid-1940s and was coined by French critics in 1946. The style was not acknowledge by American filmmakers, critics or audiences while these films were being developed until the 1970s. Mystery films series disappeared by the 1950s. With the exception of Miss Marple films in the 1960s, it was rare to find films with a female lead that had any sequels. Bran Nicol found that the more traditional "clue-puzzle mystery"

891-522: The plot is nothing special, the wall-to-wall music and 'hip' ambience of Crimson Canary result in a better than average Universal 'B' [movie]". A review in TV Guide reported that "equal attention is paid to both suspects and their motives," and that "Cool tunes color this one hot." This article about a mystery film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mystery film While cinema featured characters such as Sherlock Holmes in

924-510: The police department was Sgt. Mathison (Ed Latimer). The supporting cast included Raymond Edward Johnson , Bill Johnstone and Bryna Raeburn . Michael Fitzmaurice was the program's announcer. The series ended on September 25, 1955. Chick Carter, Boy Detective was a serial adventure that aired weekday afternoons on Mutual. Chick Carter, the adopted son of Nick Carter, was played by Bill Lipton (1943–44) and Leon Janney (1944–45). The series aired from July 5, 1943 to July 6, 1945. In 1937,

957-516: The rights to a large number of Nick Carter stories, the films used original screenplays. In the 1944 MGM movie The Thin Man Goes Home , detective Nick Charles ( William Powell ) is seen reading a Nick Carter Detective magazine while relaxing in a hammock. Columbia could not afford the rights to produce a Nick Carter serial , so they made one about his son instead; Chick Carter, Detective appeared in 1946. In 1972, Robert Conrad made

990-481: The success of the James Bond series in the 1960s, the character was updated for a long-running series of novels featuring the adventures of secret agent Nick Carter, aka the Killmaster. The first book, Run Spy Run , appeared in 1964 and more than 260 Nick Carter-Killmaster adventures were published up until 1990. Two additional books have been erroneously listed as Killmaster novels by some sources: Meteor Eject! ,

1023-461: The unsolved crime, unmasks the perpetrator, and puts an end to the effects of the villainy. During the early 20th century, there was substantial overlap between the genres of detective film and horror film , and the term "mystery" was used to encompass both. The works of Arthur Conan Doyle were often adapted to the screen in early cinema, specifically with Sherlock Holmes such as Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900). Gary Don Rhodes wrote that

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1056-505: Was "well-served" by 1960s and 70s film adaptations like The Alphabet Murders (1965), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978), the decades following it left mystery adaptations to be made for television as the "default home of sumptuous Golden Age adaptations" Eric Sandberg ( Crime Fiction Studies ) stated that while film streaming services were predominantly dominated by iterations of Nordic noir and police procedurals , there have been works inspired

1089-422: Was treated as if it were a pseudonym, and many of the volumes were written in the first person . The works were published under the house pseudonyms "Nicholas Carter" and "Sergeant Ryan". Authors known to have contributed include the following: Stories are also credited to Harrison Keith , the joint pseudonym of John A. L. Chambliss and Philip Clark , who both wrote for the franchise. The character has had

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