Calling Philo Vance (1940)

  • NR
  • 01/27/1940 (US)
  • Crime, Mystery
  • 1h 2m

Overview

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

William Clemens

Director

Tom Reed

Screenplay

S.S. Van Dine

Novel

Cast

James Stephenson's headshot

James Stephenson

Philo Vance
Margot Stevenson's headshot

Margot Stevenson

Hilda Lake
Henry O'Neill's headshot

Henry O'Neill

Markham
Edward Brophy's headshot

Edward Brophy

Ryan
Sheila Bromley's headshot

Sheila Bromley

Doris Delafield
Ralph Forbes's headshot

Ralph Forbes

Tom McDonald
Donald Douglas's headshot

Donald Douglas

Philip Wrede
Martin Kosleck's headshot

Martin Kosleck

Gamble

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