Philo Vance Returns

Philo Vance Returns

64 mins | Crime, Mystery | April 14, 1947

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.

Philo Vance Returns

64 mins | Crime, Mystery | April 14, 1947

Philo Vance Returns
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Original title Philo Vance Returns
Directors Emmett Emerson, William Beaudine Jr., William Beaudine, Howard W. Koch
Writers S.S. Van Dine, Robert E. Kent

Cast

William Wright

as Philo Vance

Vivian Austin

as Lorena Blendon Simms (as Terry Austin)

Leon Belasco

as Alexis Karnoff

Clara Blandick

as Stella Blendon

Ramsay Ames

as Virginia Berneaux

Damian O'Flynn

as Larry Blendon

Frank Wilcox

as George Hullman

Iris Adrian

as Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine

Ann Staunton

as Helen Varney Blendon

Tim Murdock

as The Policeman

Mary Scott

as Mary

Wade Crosby

as Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)

Eddie Dunn

as Police Lieutenant Mullard (Uncredited)

Broderick O'Farrell

as Dr. Campbell (Uncredited)

Phyllis Planchard

as Agatha Cowle (Uncredited)

Cy Stevens

as Greg Simms (Uncredited)