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The Greene Murder Case
(1929) American
B&W : 69 minutes
Directed by Frank Tuttle

Cast: William Powell [Philo Vance], Florence Eldridge, Ulrich Haupt, Jean Arthur, Eugene Pallette, E.H. Calvert, Gertrude Norman, Lowell Drew, Morgan Farley, Brandon Hurst, Augusta Burmeister, Marcia Harris, Mildred Golden, Mrs. Wilfred Buckland, Helena Phillips, Shep Camp, Charles E. Evans

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Louise Long, with dialogue by Bartlett Cormack, from the novel The Greene Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright). Cinematography by Henry Gerrard. Intertitles by Richard H. Digges Jr. / Released August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Powell’s 39th film. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Mystery.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Characters: Philo Vance - Police: Detectives - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 23 May 2006.

References: Everson-Detective pp. 87-89; Maltin-Guide p. 504; Quirk-Powell pp. 22, 102, 103, 104; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 400; Sweeney-Coming p. 138.

Home video: DVD.

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