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The Greene Murder Case was William Powell’s second of four adventures as society detective Philo Vance. In this film he is called upon as an entire family called the Greene, wealthy society people like Vance himself are murdered one by one. As Eugene Palette as Sergeant Heath says, they’d have to be crazy to keep committing the crimes while he and Vance are actually in the house investigating. Insanity is a major element in The Greene Murder Case.

The house itself holds a few clues to its identity. And it plays a role in the crimes that unfold, because as we learn early in the film, the late Mr. Greene’s terms state that the entire family must live together, if not happily under the same roof, for fifteen years before they can inherit. Only in these old murder mysteries do they come up with wills like this.

The Greene family is an interesting bunch in its own right. Mother Gertrude Norman is bedridden but maintains a tyrannical reign over her children, who include flapper Florence Eldridge, doormat Jean Arthur, and a pair of worthless trust fund babies in Morgan Farley and Lowell Drew.

The Greene Murder Case is probably the weakest of the four William Powell Philo Vance cases. It relies on some really far-fetched solutions for Powell to identify the killer. And if you’re even remotely a fan of these movies, you’re about a third of the way there knowing who the killer was. Let’s just say the killer seems to have an airtight alibi for all of the murders, especially the second of the three.

Powell is of course as debonair and smooth as ever. As when I saw The Canary and Benson Murder Cases, I marvel at the way Powell almost instinctively adapted to the demands of sound films immediately. Definitely a film if you are a fan of his.