
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

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Edward Brophy
Ryan

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)