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The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American pre-Code crime-mystery film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by S.S. Van Dine (the pseudonym for Willard Huntington Wright).
The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is found murdered in her apartment. She has a number of men in her life, ranging from high society to gangsters, and more than one man visited her apartment on the night she dies.
- S. S. Van Dine
- 1927
The Canary Murder Case (1929) djoi0901. 17K subscribers. Subscribed. 6K. 1.2M views 12 years ago. With William Powell, Jean Arthur, Louise Brooks, James Hall. I do not own the rights to...
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A film adaptation of S.S. Van Dine's novel featuring detective Philo Vance, played by William Powell. See the full list of cast and crew members, including writers, directors, producers, and more.
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the crime was also killed.
Jimmy is arrested, and Philo Vance, a whimsical society man and amateur detective who is a close friend of Jimmy's father, is called in on the case. Vance proves the murderer to have been the elder Spotswoode.
The present chronicle has to do with Vance’s solution of the brutal murder of Margaret Odell—a cause célèbre which came to be known as the “Canary” murder.
