Ad
related to: The Canary Murder Case (film)amazon.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Enjoy low prices on earth's biggest selection of books, electronics, home, apparel & more. Find deals and low prices on canary murder case at Amazon.com
- Cheerleaders Outfits
Find Deals on cheerleaders outfits
in Womens Shops on Amazon.
- Save on esther povitsky
Shop Devices, Apparel, Books, Music
& More. Free Shipping on...
- Daily Pill Organizer
Get Your Daily Pill Organizer on
Amazon.com Today!
- how to write a journal
Browse & Discover Thousands of Book
Titles, for Less
- Shop mickey and miney...
Find Deals on mickey and miney
mouse in Womens Clothing on Amazon
- Shop miniature notebook
Find Deals on miniature notebook in
Office Products on Amazon
- Cheerleaders Outfits
Search results
- / People Also Search for
The Canary Murder Case (film)
1929
- 1929 · Mystery · 1h 20m
The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American pre-Code crime - mystery film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by S.S. Van Dine (the pseudonym for Willard Huntington Wright). The film was directed by Malcolm St. Clair, with a screenplay by Wright (under the Van Dine pseudonym), Albert Shelby LeVino, and Florence Ryerson.
The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is found murdered in her apartment. She has a number of men in her life, ranging from high society to gangsters, and more than one man visited her apartment on the night she dies.
- S. S. Van Dine
- 1927
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the crime was also killed.
Jimmy is arrested, and Philo Vance, a whimsical society man and amateur detective who is a close friend of Jimmy's father, is called in on the case. Vance proves the murderer to have been the elder Spotswoode.
- Malcolm St. Clair
- William Powell
1929's "The Canary Murder Case" was William Powell's second sound film, but his first in the role of S. S. Van Dine's debonair detective 'Philo Vance,' who uses psychology to ferret out the culprits alongside District Attorney Markham (E. H. Calvert) and Police Sergeant Ernest Heath (Eugene Palette).
Oct 14, 2019 · The very first Vance film, The Canary Murder Case (Malcolm St. Clair & Frank Tuttle, 1929), is an interesting hybrid that not-so-neatly straddles the silent and sound eras. It is most notable for both jump-starting William Powell’s career as a leading man and ending Louise Brooks’ film career in the US.
People also ask
Is the Canary murder case based on a true story?
When was the Canary murder case released?
When did 'the Canary murder case' re-shoot?
Who starred in 'the Canary' based on a true story?
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'.
Ad
related to: The Canary Murder Case (film)amazon.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Enjoy low prices on earth's biggest selection of books, electronics, home, apparel & more. Find deals and low prices on canary murder case at Amazon.com