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Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance

5.9/10 TMDB1940Crime62 minutes

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.

GE
George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
WI
William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)
FR
Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)
JI
Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
HE
Henry O'Neill
Markham
HE
Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)
RA
Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald
JA
James Stephenson
Philo Vance
ED
Edward Brophy
Ryan
SH
Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield
EG
Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
GE
George Irving
Avery (uncredited)

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CrimeMystery
62 minutes
English
United States of America
February 3, 1940

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