The Canary Murder Case (1929)

5.7/10 82 min Crime Mystery

Overview

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.

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

Margaret Livingston

Body Double for Louise Brooks (uncredited)

Oscar Smith

Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)

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