A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

William Powell
Philo Vance

James Hall
Jimmie Spottswoode

Louise Brooks
The Canary

Jean Arthur
Alice LaFosse
Charles Lane
Charles Spottswoode

Lawrence Grant
John Cleaver

Gustav von Seyffertitz
Dr. Ambrose Lindquist

E.H. Calvert
District Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
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Release Date
February 16, 1929
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
NR
Genres
Crime, Mystery
Director
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