The Casino Murder Case

The Casino Murder Case (1935)

S.S. Van Dine's Greatest Philo Vance Mystery!

After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.

Date of release
1935-03-15
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Action, Mystery, Comedy, Crime
Director
Edwin L. Marin
Collection
Philo Vance Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Casino Murder Case is a 1935 American comedy-mystery motion picture starring Paul Lukas and Alison Skipworth. Rosalind Russell is in the supporting cast. It was directed by Edwin L. Marin from a screenplay by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine. It was the ninth film in the Philo Vance film series.

Production

Originally William Powell and Myrna Loy were intended to star in The Casino Murder Case, but Powell was tired of playing Vance – he was the first actor to play the part on film, and had played the sleuth in four earlier Philo Vance features, as well as a short skit in Paramount on Parade – so MGM planned to use Otto Kruger, and then Fred Keating (who would have been borrowed from Columbia Pictures), Warren William, and Ricardo Cortez, before sett…

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