The Scarab Murder Case (film)

The Scarab Murder Case
Directed byMichael Hankinson
Written bySelwyn Jepson
Based onnovel The Scarab Murder Case
1930 novel
by S. S. Van Dine
Produced byAnthony Havelock-Allan
StarringWilfrid Hyde-White
Wally Patch
Kathleen Kelly
CinematographyClaude Friese-Greene
Ronald Neame
Production
companies
Release date
  • 27 November 1936 (1936-11-27)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Scarab Murder Case is a 1936 film directed by Michael Hankinson. It is part of a series of films about fictional detective Philo Vance. Paramount Pictures intended for William Powell to portray the character, as he had in three prior Paramount films - The Canary Murder Case (1929), The Greene Murder Case (1929) and The Benson Murder Case (1930) - as well as The Kennel Murder Case (1933) for Warner Bros. However, Powell changed studios, and the role went to Wilfrid Hyde-White.[1]

The British Film Institute has placed it on its BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.[1]

  1. ^ a b "The Scarab Murder Case / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2014.