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The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)

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The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7900kbps | 7.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192Kbps
01:01:00, 01:02:00 | USA | Crime, Mystery

The dilettante detective stylishly sleuths his way through some of his most famous cases in this 2-Disc, 6-Film Collection. And a veritable rogue’s gallery of golden age “gentlemen actors” all take a crack at Philo, including William Powell, Warren William and Basil Rathbone.
This is the third part of Philo Vance Murder Case collection.

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)


The Garden Murder Case
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, Douglas Walton, Nat Pendleton, Gene Lockhart, H.B. Warner, Kent Smith, Grant Mitchell, Frieda Inescort, Henry B. Walthall, Jessie Ralph, Charles Trowbridge, Etienne Girardot, William Austin, Don Brodie, Olaf Hytten, Rosalind Ivan, Fred Kelsey, Wilbur Mack, Lee Phelps, Jack Roper, Matty Roubert, Dorothy Vernon, Duke York

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)


SYNOPSIS:
The Garden Murder Case At a steeplechase race for amateur "gentlemen" riders, millionaire Lowe Hammle is having a party in his box. Floyd Garden, a friend of Hammle, who has been having an affair with Madge Fenwicke-Ralston, a houseguest and wife of the much older Major Fenwicke-Ralston, is scheduled to ride Hammle's horse. Because Floyd seems depressed, Madge asks him not to ride, but he only answers that he will ride and he will break his neck. On the last jump of the race, Floyd falls to his death. Though suicide is suspected, Philo Vance, a detective who is in Hammle's box, decides to investigate Floyd's death. That night, at a party at Hammle's, Hammle's neice, Zalia Graem, who is his ward but hates him, says that she thinks Hammle is responsible for Floyd's death. At the same time, Hammle's mother's nurse, English-born Gladys Beeton, with whom Hammle has been conducting an affair, threatens him with a breach-of-promise suit. Hammle's mother, meanwhile, is plotting with him to breakup Zalia's relationship with Woode Swift, a young man with whom she is in love. To accomplish the breakup, Hammle offers Swift a lucrative job in a Latin American country, but when Zalia finds out, she is angry at Woode for accepting the job and at her uncle for offering it. Later that night, a shot is heard, and Hammle's body is found dead in the library. Suicide is again suspected, but Vance is certain that it is murder because there are no powder burns on Hammle's clothes and he was apparently shot with an antique dueling pistol. The police agree, and Vance theorizes that the murderer was a woman who was unfamiliar with guns. When all of the women suspects are questioned, each say that they heard the major's voice coming from the library just before the shot, but the major was with Woode in the billiard room all night. Because Zalia hated Hammle and is the principal beneficiary of his estate, the police suspect her, but Vance believes that she is innocent. The next day, Madge telephones Vance and says that she knows who killed Hammle. Because Vance is concerned that someone is listening in on the line, he asks her to meet him at the district attorney's office. Before Madge leaves the house, the major has a few words with her, after which she blankly tells the maid that she is going to be killed. Zalia then follows Madge, and sees her plunge from the top of a double-decker bus. When the police are summoned, they accuse Zalia of Madge's murder, and she admits to listening in on the phone call to Vance. Though the police want to arrest her, Vance convinces them to let him be responsible for her. He then learns from her that Hammle had once been a ventriloquist. When he also learns that just prior to his death Hammle had called the immigration department to have Mrs. Beeton departed, he summizes that Hammle had immitated the major's voice to do so. Vance concludes that, because of the disguised voice, it was the major, not Hammle who was the intended victim. On the way to the police station, Vance and Zalia stop in a museum and, inspired by a discussion of the hypnotic power over pythons, Vance suddenly deduces that the major hypnotized Garden because of Madge's affair; Madge had then attempted to kill the major, but had mistakenly killed Hammle; and, the major then hypnotized Madge to jump to her death. Vance returns to the house and pretends to allow the major to hypnotize him, after which the major lures Vance to a ledge. Vance then "awakens," and the police, who had been summoned by Zalia, shoot the major, who plunges to his death

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The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)


Calling Philo Vance
Director: William Clemens
Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill, Edward Brophy, Sheila Bromley, Ralph Forbes, Donald Douglas, Martin Kosleck, Jimmy Conlin, Edward Raquello, Creighton Hale, Harry Strang, Richard Kipling, Wedgwood Nowell, Bo Ling, Herbert Anderson, Henry Blair, Egon Brecher, Harry Burns, Yakima Canutt, Nat Carr, Glen Cavender, Loia Cheaney, Frederick Giermann, Eddie Graham, John Harron, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Olaf Hytten, George Irving

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)

The Garden Murder Case (1936) + Calling Philo Vance (1940)


SYNOPSIS:
Calling Philo Vance The United States government unofficially asks detective Philo Vance to investigate Archer Coe, an airplane manufacturer suspected of espionage. In Vienna, Vance steals the plans for the Coe bomber and escapes from Austria, but loses the plans on the way. On his return to the United States, Vance admits that he has no solid proof of Coe's double-dealing, but says that he intends to pursue the case. Together with Philip Wrede, one of Coe's employees, Vance calls on Coe, only to discover that he is dead from an apparent gunshot wound. Although the room in which he was killed was locked from the inside, making the death appear to be a suicide, Vance suspects that Coe was actually murdered. Coe's niece, Hilda Lake, admits that he had always accused her of stealing his plans, and adds that everyone who knew him had reason to kill him, including his brother, Brisbane Coe. Wrede is in love with Hilda, but she has become engaged to Tom MacDonald. When Dr. Doremus examines Coe's body, he finds that Coe died from a knife wound rather than a gunshot wound. A short time later, Vance finds Brisbane's body in the closet and suggests that Brisbane killed Coe. The neighbor's dog wanders into the house suffering from a head wound. Vance questions the neighbor, Doris Delafield, and learns that she planned to leave the country with Eduardo Grassi, an Italian airplane designer, making them suspects. Ling Toy, one of the servants, is discovered to be an agent for the Japanese government. Then Tom is stabbed. Vance solves the mystery by explaining that the killer came through the kitchen door to the library, started an argument and struck Coe on the head. He then hit the dog who attacked him in defense of Coe. Once the dog was taken care of, the killer stabbed Coe with a dagger. Coe regained consciousness and went to the bedroom, not knowing that he had been stabbed. Later, Brisbane came home and shot Coe, making it look like suicide, and locked the door from the outside, using a trick. The killer saw Brisbane, and thinking it was Coe, killed him as well. Vance lets the injured dog loose and he attacks Wrede, revealing him to be the killer, who was trying to steal the airplane plans for a foreign government

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