81 years ago:
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (US)
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
1942-05-07
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/69684
#ADesperateChanceforElleryQueen #JohnLitel #CharleyGrapewin #JamesBurke #Columbia #ClassicFilm

84 years ago:
You Can't Get Away with Murder (US)
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big ...
1939-03-23
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/87612
#YouCantGetAwaywithMurder #HumphreyBogart #GalePage #JohnLitel #Movies

85 years ago:
A Slight Case of Murder (US)
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
1938-02-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/34006
#ASlightCaseofMurder #EdwardGRobinson #JaneBryan #JohnLitel #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

85 years ago:
Gold Is Where You Find It (US)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes fr...
1938-02-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/233117
#GoldIsWhereYouFindIt #MichaelCurtiz #OliviadeHavilland #ClaudeRains #JohnLitel #Western #Movies