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21 February 1936 (USA)
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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...
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Just Your Garden Variety Philo Vance
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Cast
(in credits order) (verified as complete) | 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) |
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| William Austin | ... | Sneed - Hammle's Butler (uncredited) |
| Don Brodie | ... | Messenger (uncredited) |
| Olaf Hytten | ... | Vance's Butler (uncredited) |
| Rosalind Ivan | ... | Mrs. Jepson - Hammle's Housekeeper (uncredited) |
| Fred Kelsey | ... | Heath's Assistant (uncredited) |
| Wilbur Mack | ... | Man Yelling at Race Track (uncredited) |
| Lee Phelps | ... | Bus Driver (uncredited) |
| Jack Roper | ... | Servant Eating Caviar (uncredited) |
| Matty Roubert | ... | Newsboy (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Vernon | ... | Woman Running for Bus (uncredited) |
| Duke York | ... | Traffic Cop (uncredited) |
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| Edwin L. Marin | |||
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| Bertram Millhauser | (screenplay) | |
| S.S. Van Dine | (book) | |
Produced by | |||
| Lucien Hubbard | .... | producer | |
| Ned Marin | .... | producer | |
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| William Axt | (as Dr. William Axt) | ||
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| Charles G. Clarke | (photographed by) (as Charles Clark) | ||
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| Ben Lewis | |||
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| Cedric Gibbons | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Lesley Selander | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
Art Department | |||
| Edwin B. Willis | .... | associate art director | |
| Joseph C. Wright | .... | associate art director (as Joseph Wright) | |
Sound Department | |||
| Douglas Shearer | .... | recording director | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Dolly Tree | .... | wardrobe | |
Music Department | |||
| Paul Marquardt | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
| Jack Virgil | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
Production Companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (controlled by Loew's Incorporated)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1936) (USA) (theatrical)
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61 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #1956) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:K-16
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First film of Kent Smith.See more »
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Followed by Night of Mystery (1937)See more »
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Edmund Lowe plays Philo Vance(making him now the fifth actor after William Powell, Basil Rathbone, Warren William, and Paul Lukas)to assay the role of the urbane detective. His characterization is okay but he doesn't really seem to have the wit of most of his previous precursors. The mystery here too is somewhat thin and when added with Lowe comes out a bit weak. This time around a jockey gets killed after saying he must go out and ride and be killed as does a woman getting on a bus. Vance makes friends with a young woman who hates her rich uncle(the sparring between Lockhart and Bruce might just be the best part of this film). Vance meets a strange nurse and H. B. Warner affecting a British accent trying to make sense out of the third murder - that of Lockhart. The film is loaded with some great character actors like H. B. Warner, Henry Walthall, and Gene Lockhart to help make things go smoothly yet the film meanders here and there, and some scenes just look incredibly cheesy as the bus scene does. The ending with Vance confronting the killer was convincing though. The female lead and future Vance bed-mate is played by Virginia Bruce and she does a nice turn with a somewhat complicated role. This Vance is an acceptable mystery but a definite notch below those that came before it.