Calling Philo Vance
(1940)

Released: 1940-02-03

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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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Sheila Bromley

as Doris Delafield

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Ralph Forbes

as Tom McDonald

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Jimmy Conlin

as Dr. Doremus - Coroner

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Edward Raquello

as Eduardo Grassi

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Creighton Hale

as Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

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Harry Strang

as Hennessey - Markham's Assistant

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Richard Kipling

as Archer Coe

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Wedgwood Nowell

as Brisbane Coe

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Bo Ling

as Ling Toy

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Terry

as MacTavish (uncredited)

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Herbert Anderson

as First Reporter (uncredited)

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Henry Blair

as Hans Snauble (uncredited)

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Egon Brecher

as Austrian Judge (uncredited)

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Harry Burns

as Capt. Lugo (uncredited)

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