The Canary Murder Case
The Canary Murder Case
Release: 1929-02-16
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 5.7
Crime
Mystery
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
William Powell
as Philo Vance
Gustav von Seyffertitz
as Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
Eugene Pallette
as Sergeant Heath
Margaret Livingston
as Body Double for Louise Brooks (uncredited)
Oscar Smith
as Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
James Hall
as Jimmie Spottswoode
Louise Brooks
as The Canary
Jean Arthur
as Alice LaFosse
Lawrence Grant
as John Cleaver
E.H. Calvert
as District Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
Ned Sparks
as Tony Skeel
Louis John Bartels
as Louis Mannix