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Status
Released
Release
1941
Runtime
1h 8m
"ELLERY QUEEN SOLVES THE PERFECT CRIME...TO BRING YOU PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT!"
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
15 Cast Members
Ralph Bellamy
Ellery Queen
Margaret Lindsay
Nikki Porter
Charley Grapewin
Insp. Queen
Spring Byington
Carlotta Emerson
H.B. Warner
Ray Jardin
James Burke
Sgt. Velie
Douglass Dumbrille
John Matthews
John Beal
Walter Matthews
Linda Hayes
Marian Jardin
Sidney Blackmer
Anthony Rhodes
Walter Kingsford
Henry (Jardin butler)
Honorable Wu
Lee (Matthews butler)
Charles Lane
Dr. Prouty (coroner)
Charles Halton
Rufus Smith (auctioneer)
Arthur Q. Bryan
Book salesman
