The Canary Murder Case (film)

Infobox film
name=The Canary Murder Case


caption=Poster for the movie
director=Malcolm St. Clair
Frank Tuttle (scenes for talkie version)
writer=Albert S. Le Vino
Florence Ryerson
S.S. Van Dine (novel & screenplay)
Herman J. Mankiewicz (titles)
producer=
starring=William Powell
Louise Brooks
Jean Arthur
music=Karl Hajos
cinematography=Cliff Blackstone
Harry Fischbeck
editing=William Shea
runtime=82 min
language=English
distributor=Paramount
country=USA
released=1929
amg_id = 1:86550
imdb_id=

"The Canary Murder Case" is a 1929 crime/mystery film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle.

The screenplay was written by S.S. Van Dine (as Willard Huntington Wright), Albert S. Le Vino and Florence Ryerson, based on novel "The Canary Murder Case" by S.S. Van Dine.

It was the first film in the series of Philo Vance films adapted from the novels, starring William Powell as Philo Vance, Louise Brooks as the Canary and Jean Arthur. This film became notorious as the film where Brooks -- having left for Europe to make two films for director G. W. Pabst -- refused to return to the U.S. to dub her dialogue for the sound version. Paramount Pictures then terminated Brooks, and hired actress Margaret Livingston to dub the dialogue for Brooks instead.

Cast

*William Powell as Philo Vance
*Louise Brooks as Margaret Odell (the Canary)
*Jean Arthur as Alys LaFosse
*James Hall as Jimmy Spotswoode
*Charles Lane as Charless Spotswoode
*Eugene Pallette as Sgt. Ernest Heath
*Gustav von Seyffertitz as Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
*Lawrence Grant as Charles Cleaver
*Ned Sparks as Tony Sheel
*Louis John Bartels as Louis Mannix
*E.H. Calvert as Dist. Atty. John F.X. Markham
*Oscar Smith as Stuttering hallboy
*Tim Adair as George Y. Harvey
*Margaret Livingston as Margaret Odell (voice)

External links

*imdb title|id=0019745|title=The Canary Murder Case