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.
Cast
William Powell
Philo Vance
James Hall
Jimmie Spottswoode
Louise Brooks
The Canary
Jean Arthur
Alice LaFosse
Charles Lane
Charles Spottswoode
Lawrence Grant
John Cleaver
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
E.H. Calvert
District Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
Eugene Pallette
Sergeant Heath
Ned Sparks
Tony Skeel
Louis John Bartels
Louis Mannix
Tim Adair
George Y. Harvey (uncredited)
Margaret Livingston
Body Double for Louise Brooks (uncredited)
Oscar Smith
Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
Crew
Malcolm St. Clair
Director
Frank Tuttle
Director
Albert S. Le Vino
Adaptation
Florence Ryerson
Screenplay
S.S. Van Dine
Novel, Dialogue
William Shea
Editor
Cliff Blackstone
Director of Photography
Harry Fischbeck
Director of Photography
Louis D. Lighton
Associate Producer
Travis Banton
Costume Design
Karl Hajos
Original Music Composer
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Additional Writing
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