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The Scarab Murder Case is a British film of genre Crime with Wilfrid Hyde-White
The Scarab Murder Case (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Scarab Murder Case (1936) 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.
The British Film Institute has placed it on its BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.
Actors
Wilfrid Hyde-White
(Philo Vance)
Wally Patch
(Inspector Moor)
Kathleen Kelly
(Angela Hargreaves)
John Robinson
(Donald Scarlett)
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