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Mysteries or Detectives that never came to the screen...BUT SHOULD HAVE!

Upon watching George Sanders in two mystery films, shown on TCM on July 3; " "Witness To Murder" (1954) & "The Whole Truth" (1958), I came to wonder why the Sanders brothers were never teamed up...

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"Witness to Murder" plays like an attempt to cash in on "Rear Window", of the same year.  But it would be "Front Window", with Sanders as Raymond Burr, & Barbara Stanwyck as Grace Kelly/James...

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I think George didn't want to be weighed down by working with his alcoholic brother. At the end of Tom's life, they had been estranged for a long period of time, mostly due to Tom's inability to stay...

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eddiemunster57 wrote:I think George didn't want to be weighed down by working with his alcoholic brother. At the end of Tom's life, they had been estranged for a long period of time, mostly due to...

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There's a bunch of good detectives in the tv series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Of all those represented, I'd love to see Carnacki & Dorrington get more screen time.

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George C. Chesbro's Mongo and Edward D. Hoch's Simon Ark would have been good for the movies or a TV series. Mongo's adventures often had a science fiction bent while Ark investigated cases that...

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