Philo Vance Returns (1947)

04/14/1947 (US) • 1h 4m

Crime, Mystery, Action

"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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


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Part of the Philo Vance Collection

Includes The Canary Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case, The Benson Murder Case

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

investigation

murder

sanitarium

b movie

private detective

philo vance

murder by gunshot

poisoning

multiple marriages

psychiatric patient

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