Calling Philo Vance (1940)
Calling Philo Vance (1940)
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Plot.
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 & Crew.
James Stephenson
Philo Vance
Margot Stevenson
Hilda Lake
Henry O'Neill
Markham
Edward Brophy
Ryan
Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield
Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald
Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede
Martin Kosleck
Gamble
Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi
Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
Richard Kipling
Archer Coe
Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe
Bo Ling
Ling Toy
Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)
Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)
Henry Blair
Hans Snauble (uncredited)
Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)
Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
Loia Cheaney
Markham's Secretary (uncredited)
Frederick Giermann
Austrian Sergeant (uncredited)
Eddie Graham
Coroner's Assistant (uncredited)
John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)
William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)
George Irving
Avery (uncredited)
Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)
Rolf Lindau
Aeronautics Department Sentry (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)
George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)
Cliff Saum
Investigator Snitken (uncredited)
Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Wise
1st Photographer (uncredited)
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Calling Philo Vance is a 1940 American mystery/comedy film released by Warner Bros. and starring James Stephenson as the dilettante detective Philo Vance, his only appearance as the character; Margot Stevenson co-stars. The film also features Henry O'Neill, Edward Brophy, Sheila Bromley and Ralph Forbes. It was directed by William Clemens from a screenplay by Tom Reed, based on the 1933 novel The Kennel Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, which had been made into a film in 1933, starring William Powell and Mary Astor.
For this adaptation of the story, Vance is on international assignment from the United States government to investigate traffic in wartime aircraft designs. The original story dealt with art world double-dealing, but the solution to the mystery is the same in both films. Oddly, Sgt. Heath, Vance's usual police irritant, has been renamed Ryan.
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