Philo Vance Returns
"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"
1947 | 64m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | William Beaudine |
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| Writer: | Robert E. Kent |
| Staring: |
| 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: | Apr 14, 1947 |
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| Director: | William Beaudine |
| Writer: | Robert E. Kent |
| Genres: | Action |
| Keywords | sanitarium, b movie, private detective, philo vance, murder by gunshot, poisoning, multiple marriages, psychiatric patient |
| Production Companies | PRC |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 18, 2026 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| William Wright | Philo Vance |
| Vivian Austin | Lorena Blendon Simms |
| Leon Belasco | Alexis Karnoff |
| Clara Blandick | Stella Blendon |
| Ramsay Ames | Virginia Berneaux |
| Damian O'Flynn | Larry Blendon |
| Frank Wilcox | George Hullman |
| Iris Adrian | Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine |
| Ann Staunton | Helen Varney Blendon |
| Tim Murdock | The Policeman |
| Mary Scott | Mary |
| Wade Crosby | Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited) |
| Eddie Dunn | Police Lieutenant Mullard (Uncredited) |
| Broderick O'Farrell | Dr. Campbell (Uncredited) |
| Phyllis Planchard | Agatha Cowle (Uncredited) |
| Cy Stevens | Greg Simms (Uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| William Beaudine | Director |
| Eunice King | Hairstylist |
| J.N.A. Hawkins | Sound Director |
| Albert Glasser | Original Music Composer |
| Gene Fowler Jr. | Editor |
| Dorothy Drake | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Irving Friedman | Music Director |
| Perry Smith | Art Direction |
| William Beaudine Jr. | Second Assistant Director |
| Emmett Emerson | Assistant Director |
| Alfred DeGaetano | Supervising Editor |
| Armor Marlowe | Set Decoration |
| Percy Townsend | Sound Mixer |
| Robert E. Kent | Screenplay |
| Jackson Rose | Director of Photography |
| George J. Teague | Special Effects |
| S.S. Van Dine | Characters |
| Bud Westmore | Makeup Department Head |
| Howard W. Koch | Assistant Director |
| William Kernell | Dialogue Editor |
| Name | Title |
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| Howard Welsch | Producer |
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