Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

68 mins | Mystery | Aug. 14, 1941

Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

68 mins | Mystery | Aug. 14, 1941

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Columbia Pictures, Larry Darmour Productions
Original title Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Directors James P. Hogan
Writers Manfred Lee, Frederic Dannay, Eric Taylor

Cast

Ralph Bellamy

as Ellery Queen

Margaret Lindsay

as Nikki Porter

Charley Grapewin

as Insp. Queen

Spring Byington

as Carlotta Emerson

H.B. Warner

as Ray Jardin

James Burke

as Sgt. Velie

Douglass Dumbrille

as John Matthews

John Beal

as Walter Matthews

Linda Hayes

as Marian Jardin

Sidney Blackmer

as Anthony Rhodes

Walter Kingsford

as Henry (Jardin butler)

Honorable Wu

as Lee (Matthews butler)

Charles Lane

as Dr. Prouty (coroner)

Charles Halton

as Rufus Smith (auctioneer)

Arthur Q. Bryan

as Book salesman