Philo Vance Returns

Apr 14, 1947

1h 4m

★ 5.0

"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"

Overview

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Action

Production Companies

PRC

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Cast

Philo Vance

William Wright

Lorena Blendon Simms

Vivian Austin

Alexis Karnoff

Leon Belasco

Stella Blendon

Clara Blandick

Virginia Berneaux

Ramsay Ames

Larry Blendon

Damian O'Flynn

George Hullman

Frank Wilcox

Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine

Iris Adrian

Helen Varney Blendon

Ann Staunton

The Policeman

Tim Murdock

Mary

Mary Scott

Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)

Wade Crosby

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