
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

James Stephenson
Philo Vance

Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)

John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)

John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)

Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe

Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)

Henry O'Neill
Markham

Martin Kosleck
Gamble

Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)

Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake

Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)

Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)

Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi

Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)

George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)

Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield

Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)

Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)

William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)

Edward Brophy
Ryan

Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald

Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede

Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)

George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)