Calling Philo Vance
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1940
1h 2m
English
Crime, Mystery
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Calling Philo Vance
Movie
1940
1h 2m
English
Crime, Mystery
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.
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Cast
Philo Vance
Hilda Lake
Markham
Ryan
Doris Delafield
Tom McDonald
Philip Wrede
Gamble
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
Eduardo Grassi
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
Archer Coe
Brisbane Coe
Ling Toy
MacTavish (uncredited)
First Reporter (uncredited)
Hans Snauble (uncredited)
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)
2nd Photographer (uncredited)
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram...
Markham's Secretary (uncredited)
Austrian Sergeant (uncredited)
Directed By: William Clemens
Written By: Tom Reed (Screenplay), S.S. Van Dine (Novel)
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CinemaSerf
one year ago
This is an adequate afternoon B-feature that probably served more as a warning against fifth-columnists than it actually entertained anyone. It all centres around attempts by the Axis powers to obtain access to the designs of "Archer Coe" (the briefest of appearances from Richard Kipling). Now he ha More
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