Philo Vance's Secret Mission
1947 film directed by Reginald Le Borg
- Alan Curtis
- Sheila Ryan
- Tala Birell
Production
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Producers Releasing Corporation
Release date
- August 30, 1947 (1947-08-30)
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Philo Vance's Secret Mission is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan and Tala Birell.[1] It was part of a series of films featuring the detective Philo Vance made during the 1930s and 1940s.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Edward C. Jewell and Perry Smith.
Plot
Philo Vance is approached by the head of a publishing company to become an advisor on a series of crime novels they are releasing. Before long he is embroiled in a case about the mysterious killing of one of the partners in the company.
Cast
- Alan Curtis as Philo Vance
- Sheila Ryan as Mona Bannister
- Tala Birell as Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips
- Frank Jenks as Ernie Clark
- James Bell as Sheriff Harry Madison
- Frank Fenton as Paul Morgan
- Paul Maxey as Martin Jamison
- Kenneth Farrell as Joe, the Photographer
- Toni Todd as Louise Roberts aka Mrs. Paul Morgan
- David Leonard as Carl Wilson
- William Newell as Deputy
- Tom Quinn as Haddon Phillips
- Harry Strang as Ship's Purser
- Frank Wilcox as Thaddius Carter
References
- ^ Backer p.35
Bibliography
- Backer, Ron. Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood. McFarland, 2012.
External links
- Philo Vance's Secret Mission at IMDb
- Philo Vance's Secret Mission at AllMovie
- Philo Vance's Secret Mission at the TCM Movie Database
- Philo Vance's Secret Mission at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Reginald Le Borg
- Calling Dr. Death (1943)
- San Diego, I Love You (1944)
- Weird Woman (1944)
- Jungle Woman (1944)
- The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
- Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
- Destiny (1944)
- Honeymoon Ahead (1945)
- Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
- Little Iodine (1946)
- Susie Steps Out (1946)
- Fall Guy (1947)
- The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947)
- Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)
- Trouble Makers (1948)
- Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948)
- Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948)
- Port Said (1948)
- Fighting Fools (1949)
- Hold That Baby! (1949)
- Young Daniel Boone (1950)
- Wyoming Mail (1950)
- G.I. Jane (1951)
- The Flanagan Boy (1953)
- The Great Jesse James Raid (1953)
- Sins of Jezebel (1953)
- The White Orchid (1954)
- The Black Sleep (1956)
- Voodoo Island (1957)
- War Drums (1957)
- The Dalton Girls (1957)
- The Flight That Disappeared (1961)
- Deadly Duo (1962)
- Diary of a Madman (1963)
- The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964)
- So Evil, My Sister (1972)
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