The Garden Murder Case (1936)

Someone has shot and killed Lowe Hammle and everyone at his 22 room apartment is a suspect. The reasons are as varied as the number of people there. There is Dr. Garden, whose son Floyd was... See full summary »

Director:

Edwin L. Marin

Writers:

Bertram Millhauser (screenplay), S.S. Van Dine (book)

Stars:

Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Edmund Lowe	...	Philo Vance
Virginia Bruce	...	Zalia Graem
Benita Hume	...	Nurse Gladys Beeton
Douglas Walton	...	Floyd Garden
Nat Pendleton	...	Sergeant Ernest Heath
Gene Lockhart	...	Edgar Lowe Hammle
H.B. Warner	...	Major Fenwicke-Ralston
Kent Smith	...	Woode Swift
Grant Mitchell	...	District Attorney Markham
Frieda Inescort	...	Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston
Henry B. Walthall	...	Dr. Garden
Jessie Ralph	...	Mrs. Hammle
Charles Trowbridge	...	Inspector Colby
Etienne Girardot	...	Dr. Doremus (coroner)

Storyline

Someone has shot and killed Lowe Hammle and everyone at his 22 room apartment is a suspect. The reasons are as varied as the number of people there. There is Dr. Garden, whose son Floyd was killed at the track in a mysterious way which is thought to be a suicide. There is Mrs. Fenwicke-Ralston who was supposed to complete a deal on a horse. There is the blackmailing Nurse Beeton and the niece Zalia, who knows that Uncle is trying to break up her relationship with Woode. Since there is no powder marks on the body, Vance knows that it is murder and believes that a woman did the job. But he has to find the killer and the motive.

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Plot Keywords:

horse | murder | nurse | steeplechase | python | 

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Genres:

Mystery

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 February 1936 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aoratos enohos

Filming Locations:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

61 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

First film of Kent Smith.

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Connections

Follows The Bishop Murder Case (1930)

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Soundtracks

" (The Man on) The Flying Trapeze"
(1868) (uncredited)
Music by George Leybourne
Hummed by Edmund Lowe in a shower

User Reviews

Philo Vance hypnotize scene repeated in 1945

When Philo Vance (Edmund Lowe) is standing precariously on the edge of a balcony high above the city, apparently hypnotized and just about to step to his death,it immediately reminded me of a nearly identical scene in another film made nine years later, "The Woman in Green" in which Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone)is similarly about to hurl himself into space while being hypnotized.

Happily, both Philo Vance and Sherlock Holmes survive these attempts at murder by unscrupulous criminals. Exciting cinematic suspense in both these scenes. When will they learn you can't cloud the minds of great fictional detectives ?