Calling Philo Vance

February. 03,1940      
Rating:
5.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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