
Calling Philo Vance
- 1940-02-03
- Crime, Mystery
- Herbert Anderson, Stuart Holmes, Frank Mayo, Maris Wrixon, James Stephenson, Hans Schumm, George Irving, William Hopper, Henry O'Neill, Frank Wilcox, Creighton Hale, Donald Douglas, George Reeves, Ralph Forbes, Eddie Graham, Nat Carr, Rolf Lindau, Edward Brophy, Glen Cavender, Yakima Canutt, Cliff Saum, Egon Brecher, Martin Kosleck, John J. Richardson, Frederick Giermann, Jimmy Conlin, Henry Blair, Henry Zynda, Harry Strang, Jack Wise, Sheila Bromley, Harry Burns, Richard Kipling, John Harron, Terry, Margot Stevenson, Olaf Hytten, Loia Cheaney, Wedgwood Nowell, Marion Lessing, Edward Raquello, Bo Ling
- 1 h. 2 min.
- 5.9/10
- 12
- United States of America
- Warner Bros. Pictures
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.