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Calling Philo Vance

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.

1940 |1h 2m |  Crime, Mystery

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James Stephenson

Philo Vance

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Margot Stevenson

Hilda Lake

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Henry O'Neill

Markham

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Edward Brophy

Ryan

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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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Martin Kosleck

Gamble

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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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Wedgwood Nowell

Brisbane Coe

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Terry

MacTavish (uncredited)

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Herbert Anderson

First Reporter (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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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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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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Frank Wilcox

2nd Reporter (uncredited)

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Maris Wrixon

Long-Distance Operator (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

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