Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)

Mystery

Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews (Douglass Dumbrille), whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden (H. B. Warner) penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian (Linda Hayes) is engaged to Jarden's son Walter (John Beal). When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.

Updated May 21 2020

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1941-08-14

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Runtime: 68 mins Rating: 6.0 Tag Line: ELLERY QUEEN SOLVES THE PERFECT CRIME...TO BRING YOU PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT!

Cast

Ralph Bellamy

Ellery Queen

Charles Halton

Atty. Clyde Perkins

Charley Grapewin

Insp. Queen

Sidney Blackmer

Harry (aka "Gilbert Landon")

James Burke

Bartender (uncredited)

Margaret Lindsay

Nikki Porter

Spring Byington

Carlotta Emerson

Charles Lane

Dr. Prouty (coroner)