Calling Philo Vance (1940)
Crime
Mystery
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.
Cast
Philo Vance
Hilda Lake
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
Archer Coe
Brisbane Coe
Ling Toy
MacTavish (uncredited)
First Reporter (uncredited)
Hans Snauble (uncredited)
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)
Markham
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)
2nd Photographer (uncredited)
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
Markham's Secretary (uncredited)
Austrian Sergeant (uncredited)
Coroner's Assistant (uncredited)
Third Reporter (uncredited)
Hertz (uncredited)
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)
Charles (uncredited)
Ryan
Avery (uncredited)
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)
Aeronautics Department Sentry (uncredited)
Doorman (uncredited)
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
4h Reporter (uncredited)
Investigator Snitken (uncredited)
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)
2nd Reporter (uncredited)
1st Photographer (uncredited)
Doris Delafield
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)
Austrian Lieutenant (uncredited)
Tom McDonald
Philip Wrede
Gamble
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
Eduardo Grassi
Crew
Director
Screenplay
Novel
Director of Photography
Editor
Editor
Art Direction
Costume Design
Sound