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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.