Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Secret murder... Sinister mission
1947 · 58m · Approved
Crime, Mystery
Directed by
Reginald Le Borg
Overview
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.
Director and cast
- Reginald Le Borg Director
- Alan Curtis as Philo Vance
- Sheila Ryan as Mona Bannister
- Tala Birell as Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips
- Frank Jenks as Ernie Clark
- James Bell as Sheriff Harry Madison
- Frank Fenton as Paul Morgan
- Paul Maxey as Martin Jamison
- Kenneth Farrell as Joe, the photographer
- Toni Todd as Louise Roberts aka Mrs. Paul Morgan
- David Leonard as Carl Wilson (uncredited)
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