Philo Vance Returns

Philo Vance Returns

5.0IMDb Score
Released:1947-04-14
Duration:64 min
Director:William Beaudine
Actors:William Wright, Vivian Austin, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, Ramsay Ames
Production:PRC

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.

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