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Calling Philo Vance

58 %|Feb 3, 1940|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.

Featured Crew

William Clemens
Director
Tom Reed
Screenplay
S.S. Van Dine
Novel
L. William O'Connell
Director of Photography
Louis Lindsay
Editor
Ben G. Liss
Editor
Ted Smith
Art Direction
Howard Shoup
Costume Design

Cast

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James Stephenson
Philo Vance
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Sheila Bromley
Doris Delafield
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Ralph Forbes
Tom McDonald
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Donald Douglas
Philip Wrede
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Jimmy Conlin
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
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Edward Raquello
Eduardo Grassi
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Creighton Hale
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
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Harry Strang
Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
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Richard Kipling
Archer Coe
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Wedgwood Nowell
Brisbane Coe
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Bo Ling
Ling Toy
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Terry
MacTavish (uncredited)
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Herbert Anderson
First Reporter (uncredited)
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Henry Blair
Hans Snauble (uncredited)
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Egon Brecher
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
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Harry Burns
Capt. Lugo (uncredited)
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Yakima Canutt
Sorrento Sailor (uncredited)
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Nat Carr
2nd Photographer (uncredited)
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Glen Cavender
Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
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Loia Cheaney
Markham's Secretary (uncredited)
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Frederick Giermann
Austrian Sergeant (uncredited)
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Eddie Graham
Coroner's Assistant (uncredited)
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John Harron
Third Reporter (uncredited)
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Stuart Holmes
Hertz (uncredited)
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William Hopper
Clerk at Hotel Nino in Chicago (uncredited)
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Olaf Hytten
Charles (uncredited)
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George Irving
Avery (uncredited)
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Marion Lessing
Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)
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Rolf Lindau
Aeronautics Department Sentry (uncredited)
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Frank Mayo
Doorman (uncredited)
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George Reeves
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
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John J. Richardson
4h Reporter (uncredited)
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Cliff Saum
Investigator Snitken (uncredited)
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Hans Schumm
Nazi Officer at Dock (uncredited)
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Frank Wilcox
2nd Reporter (uncredited)
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Jack Wise
1st Photographer (uncredited)
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Maris Wrixon
Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)
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Henry Zynda
Austrian Lieutenant (uncredited)