The Greene Murder Case (1929)
The Greene Murder Case is a 1929 talking film produced and released by Paramount Pictures and based on the novel The Greene Murder Case, by S.S. Van Dine(aka Willard Huntington Wright). The novel had been published a year before this film was made. It stars William Powell in his first Philo Vance outing. Florence Eldridge and Jean Arthur costar.
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