The Canary Murder Case
Rating: 5.7 · 1929 · Crime, Mystery · USA · 1 ч 22 мин
Description
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Information
- Year
- 1929
- Genre
- Crime, Mystery
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 1 ч 22 мин
- TMDB
- 5.7
- IMDb
- 5.7
- Tagline
- Who killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway?
Director
Cast
- William Powell — Philo Vance
- James Hall — Jimmie Spottswoode
- Louise Brooks — The Canary
- Jean Arthur — Alice LaFosse
- Charles Lane — Charles Spottswoode
- Lawrence Grant — John Cleaver
- Gustav von Seyffertitz — Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
- E.H. Calvert — District Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
- Eugene Pallette — Sergeant Heath
- Ned Sparks — Tony Skeel
- Louis John Bartels — Louis Mannix
- Tim Adair — George Y. Harvey (uncredited)
- Margaret Livingston — Body Double for Louise Brooks (uncredited)
- Oscar Smith — Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
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