No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
Who killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway?
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
William PowellPhilo Vance
James HallJimmie Spottswoode
Louise BrooksThe Canary
Jean ArthurAlice LaFosse
Charles LaneCharles Spottswoode
Lawrence GrantJohn Cleaver
Gustav von SeyffertitzDr. Ambrose Lindquist
E.H. CalvertDistrict Attorney Markham (as Captain E. H. Calvert)
Eugene PalletteSergeant Heath
Ned SparksTony Skeel
Louis John BartelsLouis MannixExplore the crew
- Director
- Malcolm St. Clair
- Director
- Frank Tuttle
- Screenplay
- Florence Ryerson
- Editor
- William Shea
- Director of Photography
- Cliff Blackstone
- Director of Photography
- Harry Fischbeck
- Original Music Composer
- Karl Hajos