The Canary Murder Case (1929)

Who killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway?

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.

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	William Powell	As: Philo Vance
	James Hall	As: Jimmie Spottswoode
	Louise Brooks	As: The Canary
	Jean Arthur	As: Alice LaFosse
	Charles Lane	As: Charles Spottswoode

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Tagline:	Who killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway?
Certification:	NR

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Genres: Crime, Mystery

Language: English

Release Date: 16 February 1929

Country: US

Runtime: 82m

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Company: Paramount Pictures

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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)