The Kennel Murder Case Sale
Studio: Gotham (dba Alpha) Release Date: 03/29/2007
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The Kennel Murder Case Customer Review
The Kennel Murder Case, 1933 film
The film begins at the "Long Island Kennel Club". There is a dog show for the idle rich who show off their possessions. Photographs are taken of the owners for the Society Pages. Hilda Lake is a wealthy heiress whose trust fund is controlled. Is a book on "Unsolved Murders" just drivel? [No.] A prize dog was stolen and killed! To fix the contest? Mr. Archer Coe's character is shown, [You know what this means.] At midnight a shot is heard. The next morning Archer Coe is found dead in a locked room. Philo Vance will not sail to Italy, he will investigate this murder. The police arrive to investigate, so too Philo Vance. One shoe on the victim is almost off. Niece Hilda Lake arrives and gives her opinion. Brisbane Coe has an alibi, he is on the train to Chicago. The doctor says the gun didn't kill Coe, there was no blood from the wound so Coe was already dead. There was a stab wound in his back.
They learn Brisbane Coe was not on the train to Chicago. They find him in hiding, but he will not answer questions. "Where are we know?" Vance investigates, and figures out how to bolt a door from outside the room. Then they find another body - the dog from next door. Miss Delafield was a friend of Archer Coe. They check the fingerprints. An expensive Chinese vase is missing. Vance questions the cook, he tells what he saw last night. Grassi tells what he did. The butler has a past. Grassi is stabbed in the dark. Then Vance reconstructs the crime from the known facts. "Any one of seven people could have done it." Vance has a plan to detect the murderer. All the suspects are gathered in the library for the last scene. An argument provokes a fight, a dog attacks a man, and a confession solves the crime. Was it for love or money? The film presents the facts but never asks who had the motive and means to commit the murder.
"S.S. Van Dine" wrote many popular murder mystery novels until he was killed in an automobile accident. Some of his novels were made into movies. William Powell later played "Nick Charles" in "The Thin Man". [Was that Lucille Ball as the telephone operator?]
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