Calling Philo Vance

1940

1h 2m

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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.

Writers

Tom Reed(screenplay by)
S.S. Van Dine(novel by)
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James Stephenson
Philo Vance
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Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield
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Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald
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Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede
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Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
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Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi
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Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
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Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
Richard Kipling
Archer Coe
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Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe
Bo Ling
Ling Toy
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Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)
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Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)
Henry Blair
Hans Snauble (uncredited)

Writers

Tom Reed(screenplay by)
S.S. Van Dine(novel by)

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Release date

February 3, 1940 (United States)

Country of origin

United States of America

Language

English

Production company

Warner Bros. Pictures

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