
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

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Edward Brophy
Ryan

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)