The Garden Murder Case (1936)
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Synopsis of The Garden Murder Case
Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The story wastes no time getting started, with Floyd Garden (Douglas Walton) being killed in the first reel from a fall in a steeplechase. It looks like an accident -- but then, so do the subsequent deaths of Lowe Hammle (Gene Lockhart) and Mrs. Fenwick-Ralston (Frieda Inescourt). The police are baffled, but Philo Vance (Lowe) deduces that the victims were done in by a very clever -- and very deadly -- hypnotist. The revelation of the killer's identity won't be surprising to longtime mystery buffs, but it proved quite a shock to audiences in 1936. The tense final scene, in which the murder attempts to mesmerize Vance into committing suicide, was effective enough to be "borrowed" for the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Garden Murder Case
- Edmund Lowe - Philo Vance
- Gene Lockhart - Lowe Hammie
- Grant Mitchell - Markham
- Henry B. Walthall - Dr. Garden
- Charles Trowbridge - Inspector Colby
- Kent Smith - Woode Swift
- Etienne Girardot - Doremus
- William Austin - Sneed
- Virginia Bruce - Zalia Graem
- Benita Hume - Nurse Beeton
- Nat Pendleton - Sgt. Ernest Heath
- H.B. Warner - Maj. Ralston
- Douglas Walton - Floyd Garden
- Frieda Inescort - Mrs. Ralston
- Rosalind Ivan - Japson
- Jessie Ralph - Mrs. Hammle
- Director(s):
- Edwin L. Marin
- Writer(s):
- Bertram Millhauser
- Producer(s):
- Lucien Hubbard, Ned Marin
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