Philo Vance Returns (1947)
"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"
64 min
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.
- Release date
- April 14, 1947
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- William Wright as Philo Vance
- Vivian Austin as Lorena Blendon Simms
- 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 Blendon, aka Choo-choo Divine
- Ann Staunton as Helen Varney Blendon
- Tim Murdock as The Policeman
Crew
- William Beaudine · Director
- S.S. Van Dine · Writer
- Robert E. Kent · Writer
- Howard Welsch · Producer
- Albert Glasser · Composer
- Jackson Rose · Cinematographer
- Alfred DeGaetano · Editor
- Gene Fowler Jr. · Editor