Calling Philo Vance 1940  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill, Edward Brophy, Ralph Forbes, Donald Douglas, Martin Kosleck, Sheila Bromley, Jimmy Conlin, Edward Requello, Creighton Hale, Harry Strang
This updated remake of the successful "The Kennel Murder Case" brought this series of Philo Vance films to an end, with a new Vance (James Stephenson). Another, shorter series would follow in 1947. A designer of warplane equipment is murdered and Vance, who is now a government investigator, is on the trail of the killer.
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Invisible Stripes 1939  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Flora Robson, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Kelly, Marc Lawrence, Lee Patrick, Henry O'Neill, Moroni Olsen, Tully Marshall, Joseph Crehan, Joe Downing, Chester Clute, Margot Stevenson
Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is paroled from Sing Sing prison the same day as mobster Chuck Martin (Humphrey Bogart). Cliff needs money to help his younger brother Tim (William Holden) get married to Peggy (Jane Bryan) and joins Chuck's gang. Problems ensue, and both Cliff and Chuck are killed by rival gangsters Ed Kruger (Paul Kelly) and Lefty Sloan (Marc Lawrence). But, as they lie near death, Cliff and Chuck console themselves with the fact that by dying they will not be serving life sentences.
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Smashing the Money Ring 1939  N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Terry O. Morse
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Margot Stevenson, Eddie Foy Jr., Joe Downing, Charles D. Brown, Elliott Sullivan, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson, Donald Douglas, Joe King
This is the third in a series of Secret Service stories starring Ronald Reagan as Lieutenant "Brass" Bancroft. This time around "Brass" leads his agents in an attempt to stop illegal action at sea.
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| 1. Calling Philo Vance (1940)
2. Invisible Stripes (1939)
3. Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
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