Philo Vance Returns

5.0

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.

Discover

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

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)

Art

Perry Smith

Art Direction

Armor Marlowe

Set Decoration

Camera

Jackson Rose

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Eunice King

Hairstylist

Bud Westmore

Makeup Department Head

Dorothy Drake

Wardrobe Supervisor

Crew

George J. Teague

Special Effects

Directing

Emmett Emerson

Assistant Director

Howard W. Koch

Assistant Director

William Beaudine Jr.

Second Assistant Director

Editing

Alfred DeGaetano

Supervising Editor

Production

Howard Welsch

Producer

Sound

William Kernell

Dialogue Editor

Albert Glasser

Original Music Composer

J.N.A. Hawkins

Sound Director

Percy Townsend

Sound Mixer

Irving Friedman

Music Director

Writing

S.S. Van Dine

Characters

Robert E. Kent

Screenplay