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Certificate: Passed After socialite Lynn Llewwllen receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer. Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. When the evidence points to his brother, Brisbane is found stabbed to death in the closet.
See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551 The Kennel Murder Case (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Delafield's dog then wandered in, attracted by the commotion, and attacked the murderer.
Certificate: Passed While sure of the killer's identity, Vance has no proof. Was this review helpful to you? Crime A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers. The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 murder mystery novel, written by S. S. Van Dine, with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked room mystery. A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him. Downstairs, he ran into the actual killer, who had seen through a window that Archer Coe was still alive and come back to finish the job. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
His niece Hilda Lake (Brisbane Coe becomes Vance's prime suspect.
He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber ... Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides but Vance suspects hypnosis and foul play.
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. Drama
When the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Coe awakened soon after.
Brisbane entered the chamber; seeing his brother apparently asleep in his chair, he shot the corpse and arranged the scene to look like a suicide. Mystery Certificate: Passed
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
With William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise.
Certificate: Passed
Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead.
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The Stann family gives a small party prior to daughter Bernice's marriage to socialite Monty, but all of the guests seem to be against the match. Powell's role as Philo Vance is not the actor's first performance as the aristocratic sleuth; he also portrays the character in three films produced by Paramount in 1929 and 1930.
Certificate: Passed Comedy All the suspects who knew her had ...
Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom.
Archer had a number of enemies, any one of which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one did and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside. When Brisbane is found dead in a closet, Vance is both puzzled and enlightened.
Director Michael Curtiz covered the talkiness of the film, endemic to whodunnits of this sort, by using a mobile camera in some scenes, and kept up the pace of the film with Film historian William K. Everson, who pronounced the film a "masterpiece" in the August 1984 issue of Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. Comedy