PHILO VANCE RETURNS (1947) ¢ 1/2
D: William Beaudine
William Wright, Vivian Austin, Leon Belasco,
Clara Glandick, Damian O'Flynn, Iris Adrian
When the ex-wives of a wealthy playboy start turning up dead (along with the playboy himself), it's up to Philo Vance to crack the case before everybody lands in the morgue. A poverty-row whodunit with a solution you could probably figure out on your own without the help of a B-movie private eye. William Powell had played Vance a few times in the early sound era, but this is a long way from those films, and Wright is a long way from William Powell.
