The Canary Murder Case
Who killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway?
1929 · 1h 22m
Crime, Mystery
Directed by
Malcolm St. Clair
,
Frank Tuttle
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.
Director and cast
- Malcolm St. Clair Director
- Frank Tuttle Director
- William Powell as Philo Vance
- Louise Brooks as The Canary
- Jean Arthur as Alice LaFosse
- James Hall as Jimmy Spottswoode
- Charles Lane as Charles Spottswoode
- Lawrence Grant as John Cleaver
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
- E.H. Calvert as Dist. Atty. John F.X. Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
- Eugene Pallette as Sgt. Ernest Heath
- Ned Sparks as Tony Skeel
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