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About
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.
Theatrical
Feb 16, 1929
DVD / Blu-ray
May 21, 2024
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Paramount Pictures, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Philo Vance Collection
The movie adaptions of the S. S. Van Dine novels featuring the detective Philo Vance, starring various actors in the lead role.
Cast
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William Powell
Philo Vance
J
James Hall
Jimmie Spottswoode
L
Louise Brooks
The Canary
J
Jean Arthur
Alice LaFosse
C
Charles Lane
Charles Spottswoode
L
Lawrence Grant
John Cleaver
G
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
E
E.H. Calvert
District Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
E
Eugene Pallette
Sergeant Heath
N
Ned Sparks
Tony Skeel
L
Louis John Bartels
Louis Mannix
M
Margaret Livingston
Body Double for Louise Brooks (uncredited)
O
Oscar Smith
Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
