The Scarab Murder Case (film)

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The Scarab Murder Case
Directed by Michael Hankinson
Written by Selwyn Jepson
Based onnovel The Scarab Murder Case
1930 novel
by S. S. Van Dine
Produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan
Starring Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wally Patch
Kathleen Kelly
Cinematography Claude Friese-Greene
Ronald Neame
Production
companies
Release date
  • 27 November 1936 (1936-11-27)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Scarab Murder Case is a 1936 film directed by Michael Hankinson. It is part of a series of films about fictional detective Philo Vance. Paramount Pictures intended for William Powell to portray the character, as he had in three prior Paramount films - The Canary Murder Case (1929), The Greene Murder Case (1929) and The Benson Murder Case (1930) - as well as The Kennel Murder Case (1933) for Warner Bros. However, Powell changed studios, and the role went to Wilfrid Hyde-White. [1]

Contents

The British Film Institute has placed it on its BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. [1]

Plot summary

Philo Vance comes to England to investigate the murder of a millionaire. [2]

Cast

References

  1. 1 2 "The Scarab Murder Case / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Scarab Murder Case". IMDb. Retrieved 1 December 2024.


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