
Calling Philo Vance
1940 • Crime | Mystery
William Clemens
Director
Status
Released
Release date
February 3, 1940
Duration
62 Min
Language
en
Popularity
0.3413
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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

Margot Stevenson

Henry O'Neill

Edward Brophy

Sheila Bromley

Ralph Forbes

Donald Douglas

Martin Kosleck

Jimmy Conlin

Edward Raquello

Creighton Hale

Harry Strang

Wedgwood Nowell

Terry

Herbert Anderson

Egon Brecher

Harry Burns

Yakima Canutt

Nat Carr

Glen Cavender

John Harron

Stuart Holmes

William Hopper

Olaf Hytten

George Irving

Marion Lessing

Frank Mayo

George Reeves

John J. Richardson

Frank Wilcox

Maris Wrixon