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Calling Philo Vance

6.0(13)19401h 2m2

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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Released
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Language
English
Part of Philo Vance Collection · 15 films
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Writers

Tom Reed

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereLos Angeles, California27 Jan 1940
    • Theatrical3 Feb 1940

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Calling Philo Vance was released on 3 February 1940.

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    CinemaSerf

    4/1/2023

    6/10

    This is an adequate afternoon B-feature that probably served more as a warning against fifth-columnists than it actually entertained anyone. It all centres around attempts by the Axis powers to obtain access to the designs of "Archer Coe" (the briefest of appearances from Richard Kipling). Now he has an exclusive arrangement with the Americans so when he is found murdered, it falls to the wily, suspicions and tenacio…

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