6.2/10 402 votes

Released:
1929-02-16

Overview:
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.

Directors:
Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle

Runtime:
1h 22min

Genre:
Crime, Mystery

• Cast:
• 
  William Powell
  as
  Philo Vance
• 
  James Hall
  as
  Jimmie Spottswoode
• 
  Louise Brooks
  as
  The Canary
• 
  Jean Arthur
  as
  Alice LaFosse
• 
  Charles Lane
  as
  Charles Spottswoode