Oldie mystery w/ clues designed into the parquet floor of the mansion

Hi, First, it is not "Clue" as this popped up first on Google search. 8-)

1950's, I think. _Maybe_ early 1960s. One of the many, many, old dark house/mansion movies. This I think is in a mansion. I have an image of someone on the staircase looking down at the floor with certain shadows on it which make him finally _see_ the clues.

Its not shadows but Indiana Jones and the last crusade has a scene where hes on a staircase looking down on the floor and sees the roman numeral for ten 'X' which is the location marker for an artefact hes searching for.

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The word is Banana Muffin.

Thanks, but I think that came out later than the 1950s - early 60s. Thanks for playing. 8-)

I can see where that came from. I should have said that it is quite hard to see and it was the shadows and it was..umm, words or something longer.

I have 2 posts here: I thought that 2 memories were of the same movie but a friend said that they were 2 different ones. He could not think of the names, though. So, _maybe_ this is the same movie with the deadly trapdoor as in the other post.

Both movies were looking for hidden treasure/money in the house.

i loved those type of films as a kid so here's a few i remember, i hope they help you out...

Scared Stiff 1953
What a Carve Up 1961
Ghost Breakers 1940
The Cat and the Canary 1939
And Then There Were None 1945

if u type *mystery mansion black and white movie* in yahoo it gives u a link for youtube with many full films

It would be earlier than you said but I wonder if it could be one of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films? I feel like there was one that involved an old house.

Thank you for trying. I had not seen Scared Stiff before. It is not the one I am looking for but seems worth watching. I have tried all the search engines and apparently the words "Treasure clue made in parquet floor" have not been typed by anyone online other than about the Indy Jones movie. I have been looking for years. And even tried a "Old mansions in movies" blog, but it was so old the writer never got back to me. "Parquet floor in movies" gets me to "Clue" which is no help. 8-)

the only other film i can think of is Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein...

Keep trying – I did in two cases and they were both answered on Movie Forums. One had taken me over thirty years to find .