
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

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Edward Brophy
Ryan

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)