
Calling Philo Vance
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.
Director William Clemens
Cast

Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

Edward Brophy
Ryan

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald