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- Playboy Larry Blendon (<a href=">Damian O'Flynn) introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon (<a href=">Clara Blandick) to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux (<a href=">Ramsay Ames). Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend Philo Vance (<a href=">William Wright) to help find the killer. Even as they talk, the killer strikes again and Philo hears Larry fall dead. Philo begins his investigation with Alexis Karnoff (leon Belasco'), Virginia's manager, and the two go to Larry's home, where Stella tells them that the motive for the killing might be Larry's will that names the six women in his life as heirs and if any die before the will is probated, the others will divide the shares. They also learn that Katherine Corbett(<a href=">Phyllis Planchard), the first of Larry's wives, has been murdered. Suspicion now falls on Lorena Sims (<a href=">Vivian Austin), a former wife who has been a patient at a sanitarium suffering from a nervous ailment. All of the deaths have been by poison and Lorena had access to it at the sanitarium. Philo uncovers another piece of information that leads him to break into the Blandon home just as Stella is about to give Lorena a glass of warm milk.
- I have now seen all three Philo Vance films that were made, on a very tight budget and schedule as well, in 1947. I think "Philo Vance's Gamble" is the best of the three, while "Philo Vance Returns" is the weakest. The plotting here is again pretty clever, especially in the way it fools you about the motive behind the murders, but a little too much screen time is awarded to the mostly unfunny, and occasionally crass (after finding a woman dead in her bathtub: "At least that's a clean way to die"), "comic relief" character of a Russian musical agent who becomes Philo Vance's sidekick; Frank Jenks was more successful in a similar role in the other two Vance films of the same year. This guy leaves little time for other supporting characters; second-billed Terry Austin, who shone in "Philo Vance's Gamble", has only two short scenes this time! Further down the cast list, Iris Adrian steams up her one and only scene: her stage name may be "Choo Choo" but after seeing her legs you'll be going "Woo Hoo"! ** out of 4.
- "Philo Vance Returns" is one of three Vance mysteries made by PRC, an ultra-cheapo production company specializing in mostly craptastic B-movies. Occasionally, they accidentally made a decent film...and this happens to be one of them. So, despite the horrid production company and mostly unknown actors, it manages to entertain and is worth seeing.<br/><br/>Larry is an idiot. He's been married many times and was engaged several times as well. Soon after introducing his latest fiancee to his grandmother, the young lady is killed. Soon, Larry is also killed...and one by one his exs all start getting killed as well! Fortunately, Philo Vance is on hand to investigate...though he isn't quick enough to stop many of the murders.<br/><br/>The film's biggest asset is that the murderer is an interesting choice but there also are enough red herrings and twists to keep you watching. Worth seeing...though I have no idea if PRC's other Vance films are worth your time or not.
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