The Canary Murder Case
Who killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway?
1929-02-16 | 82 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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William PowellPhilo Vance
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James HallJimmie Spottswoode
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Louise BrooksThe Canary
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Jean ArthurAlice LaFosse
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Charles LaneCharles Spottswoode
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Lawrence GrantJohn Cleaver
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Gustav von SeyffertitzDr. Ambrose Lindquist
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E.H. CalvertDistrict Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
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Eugene PalletteSergeant Heath
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Ned SparksTony Skeel
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Louis John BartelsLouis Mannix
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Margaret LivingstonBody Double for Louise Brooks (uncredited)
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Oscar SmithStuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
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