"A DUMBELLE...who knew too much about MURDER!"
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.
Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen
Warren William
Philo Vance
Ellen Drew
Ann Wilson
Kent Taylor
Bill Brown
Jed Prouty
Uncle Ambrose
Jerome Cowan
Daniel Mirche
Donald MacBride
Dist. Atty. John, Markham
H.B. Warner
Richard Lawrence
William Demarest
Police Sgt. Ernest Heath
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.