
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

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

Edward Brophy
Ryan

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)