Philo Vance Returns (1947)
"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"
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.
- Date of release
- 1947-04-14
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Action
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Collection
- Philo Vance Collection
Casting
- William Wright — Philo Vance
- Vivian Austin — Lorena Blendon Simms
- Leon Belasco — Alexis Karnoff
- Clara Blandick — Stella Blendon
- Ramsay Ames — Virginia Berneaux
- Damian O'Flynn — Larry Blendon
- Frank Wilcox — George Hullman
- Iris Adrian — Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine
- Ann Staunton — Helen Varney Blendon
- Tim Murdock — The Policeman
- Mary Scott — Mary
- Wade Crosby — Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)
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