The Greene Murder Case (film)

The Greene Murder Case
Directed byFrank Tuttle
Written byLouise Long (screenplay)
Richard H. Digges Jr. (intertitles,silent version)
Based onThe Greene Murder Case
1928 novel
by S.S. Dine
Produced byB. P. Schulberg
StarringWilliam Powell
Florence Eldridge
Jean Arthur
CinematographyHenry Gerrard
Edited byVerna Willis
Music byKarl Hajos
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 11, 1929 (1929-08-11)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Greene Murder Case is a 1929 talking film produced and released by Paramount Pictures and based on the novel The Greene Murder Case, by S.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright). The novel had been published a year before this film was made. It stars William Powell in his second Philo Vance outing. Florence Eldridge and Jean Arthur costar.

In 1937, the film was remade as Night of Mystery.