Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase (1939)

proof that every girl needs a boy (to be the fall guy for all her crimes)

eely

in this movie, nancy drew: forges a suicide note, obstructs justice, gaslights two old ladies (twice!), blackmails her friend (also twice), shoots in a game reserve, gets her friend arrested (three times), drugs the two old ladies with sleeping tablets, breaks and enters,…

smokeandmirrors

“If someone is trying to buy a house and it suddenly becomes haunted, it’s probably not a coincidence.”Keeping up with Spooktober & Hooptober vibes here with this Nancy Drew noir film. The Hidden Staircase book was my favorite of the series. This version was both cute,…

Michelle MichelleBookAddict

Nancy recklessly trudges into trouble again, dragging poor Ted along with her (he gets the worst of it), but the finale is less absurd and slapstick. The comedy in this feels almost more modern than in the earlier entries. A couple dry line deliveries had me actually…

Rob Hill

Nancy goes all in on this one and I think it's my favourite of the four. I so love the tics the series gave each of the characters, Nancy's constant blackmailing of Ted, Ted's talking gibberish to get himself out of any situation. Good clean fun, even if Nancy does slip…

Nicole

This film is better than other films, I loved Ted so much, trouble shooter made doubt this movie will be good or not that's why I wasn't watched this for time, it's actually good, you can skip the other three parts but I really recommend this one. Yet the police officer is…

Adi

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase may not follow the Carolyn Keene book or even really feature a staircase, but it was always my favorite of the Bonita Granville Nancy Drew films. I love that these films find a balance between Nancy and Ted being kids and their being…

victoryfish

Nancy goes FULL dirtbag in this one babey! The usual breaking into crime scenes PLUS forging a suicide note babey!!!

OlDirtyPetard

"I'm the iceman!" The last of the Bonita Granville Nancy Drew movies might be the best of the four! By this point the main characters knew their roles and they'd started perfecting the formula. Too bad it had to end already, I was really starting to enjoy these. I'll…

PUNQ