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Calling Philo Vance

Feb 3, 1940 · 1h 2m
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Crime
Mystery

PLOT

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.

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CAST

James Stephenson
Philo Vance
Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake
Henry O'Neill
Markham
Edward Brophy
Ryan
Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield
Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald
Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede
Martin Kosleck
Gamble
Directed by William Clemens

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Country
US

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