The Kennel Murder Case (1933) on Netflix
Philo Vance's terrier misses the Long Island Kennel Club final, disappointing fellow competitor Archer Coe. Coe is found dead in his locked bedroom, and Vance doubts the suicide ruling.
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Plot summary
Archer Coe, a dog show competitor and collector of Chinese art, is found dead in his locked bedroom with a pistol in his hand. District Attorney Markham and Detective Heath treat the death as suicide. Philo Vance, whose terrier missed the final of the Long Island Kennel Club show, gives up a trip to Italy: bloodstains and Coroner Dr. Doremus's conclusion that Coe died of internal bleeding from a stab wound point to murder. Coe antagonized the people around him. His niece Hilda Lake resented how tightly he controlled her finances; her suitor Sir Thomas MacDonald blamed him for his dog's death; secretary Raymond Wrede was laughed at when he sought Coe's help in winning her; his lover and neighbor Doris Delafield was involved with Eduardo Grassi; and the cook Liang helped him build the collection.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
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- Warner Bros. records show the film's original casting included Hugh Herbert as Dr. Doremus, George Blackwood as Bruce MacDonald and Claire Dodd as Doris Delafield, while Ralph Bellamy was reported to have been signed to perform but does not appear in the released film.
- Director Michael Curtiz covered the film's talkiness, endemic to whodunnits of this sort, by using a mobile camera in some scenes, and kept up the film's pace with dissolves and wipes.
- It was the first of S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance novels to be adapted by Warner Bros.; earlier Vance films had been made by Paramount, and later ones would be made by Warners, Paramount and MGM.
