Archer Coe has been found dead. The cops consider it suicide, but Ace Detective Philo Vance believes otherwise. Archer had a number of enemies, which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one, and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside. Only Philo can find out.

(USA, 1933, B&W, 73 mins, dir. Michael Curtiz, with William Powell & Mary Astor) (#8363)