Calling Philo Vance
Calling Philo Vance
Release: 1940-02-03
·Runtime: 62m
·★ 5.9
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
William Hopper
as Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)
Marion Lessing
as Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
as Charles (uncredited)
Egon Brecher
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Harry Burns
as Capt. Lugo (uncredited)
Nat Carr
as 2nd Photographer (uncredited)
Wedgwood Nowell
as Brisbane Coe
Terry
as MacTavish (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt
as Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)
George Irving
as Avery (uncredited)
James Stephenson
as Philo Vance
Jimmy Conlin
as Dr. Doremus - Coroner
John Harron
as Third Reporter (uncredited)
John J. Richardson
as 4h Reporter (uncredited)
Maris Wrixon
as Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)
Ralph Forbes
as Tom McDonald
Donald Douglas
as Philip Wrede
Herbert Anderson
as First Reporter (uncredited)
George Reeves
as Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
Margot Stevenson
as Hilda Lake
Sheila Bromley
as Doris Delafield
Frank Mayo
as Doorman (uncredited)
Edward Raquello
as Eduardo Grassi
Harry Strang
as Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
Glen Cavender
as Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
as Hertz (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
as 2nd Reporter (uncredited)
Henry O'Neill
as Markham
Edward Brophy
as Ryan
Martin Kosleck
as Gamble
Creighton Hale
as Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
