Calling Philo Vance
movie

Released February 03, 1940
Overview
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.
Cast

James Stephenson
as
Philo Vance

Margot Stevenson
as
Hilda Lake

Henry O'Neill
as
Markham

Edward Brophy
as
Ryan

Sheila Bromley
as
Doris Delafield

Ralph Forbes
as
Tom McDonald

Donald Douglas
as
Philip Wrede

Martin Kosleck
as
Gamble

Jimmy Conlin
as
Dr. Doremus - Coroner

Edward Raquello
as
Eduardo Grassi

Creighton Hale
as
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Harry Strang
as
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

