Philo Vance's Secret Mission

Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)

Secret murder... Sinister mission

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.

Date of release
1947-08-30
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
58m
Genres
Mystery, Crime
Director
Reginald Le Borg
Collection
Philo Vance Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Philo Vance's Secret Mission is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Reginald LeBorg and starring Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan and Tala Birell. It was part of a series of films featuring the detective Philo Vance made during the 1930s and 1940s.

Production

Philo Vance’s Secret Mission was director LaBorg’s only picture for Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), and filmed at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. According to director Reginald LeBorg, PRC was a low budget outfit, and acknowledged that some films were shot in two or three days, incorporating stock footage.

Though PRC executives were satisfied with his efficient handling of the production, LeBorg claims to have declined to make another film for them. However, whether there was ever any actual offer to make another film for PRC is debatable; the production arm of the company permanently dissolved the same month Philo Vance’s Secret Mission was completed.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Edward C. Jewell and Perry Smith.

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