Best Investigation movies of 1961

Actors : James Robertson Justice, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Margaret Rutherford,
Directors : George Pollock,

When Miss Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.

Actors : Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Diane Clare, Norman Bird,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Actors : Eugenie Leontovich, Patricia Breslin, Glenn Corbett, Alan Bunce,
Directors : William Castle,

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Dina Merrill,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't ...

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge.

Actors : Karin Baal, Wolfgang Lukschy, Dieter Borsche, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Wealthy, heavily insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."

Actors : Micheline Presle, Marcello Mastroianni, Salvo Randone, Cristina Gaioni,
Directors : Elio Petri,

Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police in his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what is the investigation about as we find out details about his life.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Gary Cooper, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.

Actors : Audie Murphy, Vic Morrow, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert,
Directors : Herbert Coleman,

Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.

Actors : Hugh Burden, Bernard Lee, Haya Harareet, Stewart Granger,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

A wealthy London-based shipping magnate is blackmailed by an evil dentist which threatens to reveal an old case of fraud, while the dentist himself is threaten by a mysterious masked man.

Actors : Sabine Sesselmann, Penelope Horner, William Lucas, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Ákos Ráthonyi,

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

Actors : David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Jacques Aubuchon, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marianne Koch, Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret,
Directors : Georges Franju,

When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the ...

Actors : Arch Hall Jr., Rex Holman, Burr Middleton, Robert Paget,
Directors : Leigh Jason,

A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.

Actors : Delphi Lawrence, Natasha Parry, Conrad Phillips, Paul Daneman,
Directors : Allan Davis,

The Police investigate a theft of emerald jewelry which had led to a murder.

Actors : Jean Relet, Gamil Ratib, Philippe Guégan, Robert Berri,
Directors : Jean Stelli,

A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral services company.

Actors : Marie Brozová, Otakar Brousek, Josef Gruss, Zdenek Duss,
Directors : Pavel Blumenfeld,

Jan Bernard (Vladimír Ráz) reports to the district police department that his wife Hilda did not return from visiting her sister in East Berlin. For young investigator Tereza Machátová (...

Actors : Laurence Payne, Edward Underdown, Jane Griffiths, Patricia Dainton,
Directors : Montgomery Tully,

A composer stuck in a middle-class marriage finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder ...

Actors : Ichirô Izawa, Kôshirô Harada, Naoko Kubo, Jûshirô Konoe,
Directors : Shoji Matsumura,

Jûbei Yagyû meets his former master Akizuki Hayato-no-Kami in Akizuki Village. An evil gang is trying to murder the sickly Hayato, but Jûbei Yagyû will ruin their plan.

Actors : Reedy Talton, Ford Rainey, Jana Pearce, Casey Peyson,
Directors : Nicholas Webster,

A State Department employee, who is suspected of murdering a high government official, sets out to hunt down the real killer.