Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

69 mins | Mystery | March 24, 1941

Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

69 mins | Mystery | March 24, 1941

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Larry Darmour Productions
Original title Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
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

Anna May Wong

as Lois Ling

James Burke

as Sgt. Velie

Eduardo Ciannelli

as Count Brett (as Edward Ciannelli)

Frank Albertson

as Sanders

Ann Doran

as Sheila Cobb

Noel Madison

as Gordon Cobb

Charles Lane

as Doc Prouty

Russell Hicks

as Harry Walsh

Tom Dugan

as McGrath

Mantan Moreland

as Roy Johnson

Theodore von Eltz

as Jim Ritter