Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Calling Philo Vance has generally received mixed reviews.
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Calling Philo Vance was released in 1940 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving Calling Philo Vance (1940) an average rating of 46%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 70%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Professional critics were more impressed with Calling Philo Vance than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 46%, Calling Philo Vance is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1940, which stands at 63%.
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