31 Jan 1954
World for Ransom
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
Philo Vance Returns
"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"
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.
Top Billed Cast
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
Mary Scott Mary
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)
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