Calling Philo Vance - Original Trailer 1940

Calling Philo Vance is a perfunctory remake of 1933's The Kennel Murder Case, which many aficionados consider the best of the "Vance" films. James Stephenson plays the titular gentleman sleuth, who must solve the murder of the inventor of a revolutionary new bombsight (the original film concerned a championship dog race). The principal suspect is the victim's brother, who is taken out of the running when he, too, is bumped off. The actual killer is in the employ of an unnamed foreign government-and, in the tradition of Kennel Murder Case, is also the least suspicious and most cooperative of the suspects. With Calling Philo Vance, mystery novelist S. S. Van Dine's dilettante detective bade farewell to the screen for seven years, returning in 1947 through the facilities of low-budget PRC Pictures. James Stephenson - Philo Vance Margot Stevenson - Hilda Lake Henry O'Neill - Markham Edward S. Brophy - Ryan Ralph Forbes - Taylor McDonald Donald Douglas - Philip Wrede Martin Kosleck - Gamble Sheila Bromley - Doris Edward Raquello - Grassi Creighton Hale - Du Bois Harry Strang - Hennessey Richard Kipling - Archer Coe Wedgewood Nowell - Brisbane Coe Herbert Anderson - Reporter Yakima Canutt - Sailor Jimmy Conlin - Dr. Doremus William Hopper - Hotel clerk George Irving - Avery George Reeves - Steamship clerk