False Faces

May 28, 1943

0h 58m

★ 7.0

SUSPENSE! THRILLS!! CHILLS!!!

Overview

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.

Genres

Mystery

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

District Attorney Stanley S. Harding

Stanley Ridges

Don Westcott (as Bill Henry)

William Henry

Craig S. Harding

Rex Williams

Joyce Ford

Veda Ann Borg

Diana Harding

Janet Shaw

Police Capt. Alan O'Brien

Joseph Crehan

Apartment Manager

Chester Clute

Assistant District Attorney Stewart

John Maxwell

Detective Mallory

Dick Wessel

Jimmy -- Cab Driver

Billy Nelson

Magnolia

Etta McDaniel

Mack (as Nicodemus)

Nick Stewart

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

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6.1

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0.0

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