
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)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

Edward Brophy
Ryan

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant