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21-473: The Hole may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Films [ edit ] The Hole (1957 film) , a Japanese drama directed by Kon Ichikawa The Hole (1960 film) , a French film directed by Jacques Becker The Hole (1962 film) , an animated short film directed by John Hubley The Hole (1997 film) , a South Korean thriller directed by Kim Sung-hong The Hole (1998 film) ,

42-453: 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

63-452: A 1986 album by Golden Earring "The Hole" ( I Am Weasel ) , a 1998 episode of I Am Weasel "The Hole" (song) , a 1998 song by Randy Travis "The Hole", a 2010 song by Glen Phillips Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] The Hole (play) , a 1958 absurdist play The Hole (novel) , a 2014 Japanese novel written by Hiroko Oyamada. "Back in the Hole",

84-776: A Taiwanese drama directed by Tsai Ming-Liang The Hole (2001 film) , a British thriller directed by Nick Hamm The Hole (2009 film) , a 3D film directed by Joe Dante The Hole (2010 film) , a documentary set in New York City The Hole , two short 2016 documentaries on the Montreal Protocol by David Attenborough The Hole (2020 film) , El hoyo , a Spanish-language film released in English-language regions as The Platform . The Hole (2021 film) , an Italian film directed by Michelangelo Frammartino Music [ edit ] The Hole (album) ,

105-542: A colloquial term for solitary confinement See also [ edit ] Hole (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Hole . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hole&oldid=1244345573 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

126-526: A gun on her. She contacts the policeman who was fired, who is now a private detective. The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara. This article related to a Japanese film of the 1950s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a mystery film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This film article about a 1950s comedy film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mystery film While cinema featured characters such as Sherlock Holmes in

147-672: A season 4 episode of The Shield Places [ edit ] The Hole (lake) , a small glacial lake in Elmore County, Idaho The Hole (Scientology) , a detention facility operated by the Church of Scientology The Hole, New York City , a neighborhood within New York City The Hole, a colloquial name for the Underground Complex at Canadian Forces Base North Bay , Canada Other uses [ edit ] The hole,

168-436: A weekly magazine publishes photos of her, and offers a prize to the person who discovers her. A group of three bank embezzlers, So Yamamura , Eiji Funakoshi , and Sotoji Mukui (Fujio Harumoto) employ Mukui's younger sister Fukiko as a fake employee at the bank and plan to make her disappear when the real woman appears again and blame the crime on her. When she contacts Mukui about the crime, she finds him dead and Fukiko pulls

189-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Hole (1957 film) The Hole ( 穴 , Ana ) a.k.a. Hole in One a.k.a. The Pit , is a 1957 black-and-white comedy/ mystery Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa . A reporter, Nagako Kita ( Machiko Kyō ), is fired for writing about police corruption. To make money, she hides while

210-860: 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

231-453: 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

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252-535: 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

273-565: 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

294-527: 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

315-549: 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

336-417: 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

357-416: 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

378-473: 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

399-427: 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"

420-461: 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

441-552: 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

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