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