Movie

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Released: August 14, 1941 (1941)

Runtime: 68 minutes

Genres: Mystery

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Charley Grapewin as Insp. Queen
Age at release: 71
H.B. Warner as Ray Jardin
Age at release: 64
Spring Byington as Carlotta Emerson
Age at release: 54
James Burke as Sgt. Velie
Age at release: 54
Douglass Dumbrille as John Matthews
Age at release: 51
Sidney Blackmer as Anthony Rhodes
Age at release: 46
Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen
Age at release: 37
John Beal as Walter Matthews
Age at release: 32
Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter
Age at release: 30
Linda Hayes as Marian Jardin
Age at release: 22

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Charles Halton as Rufus Smith (auctioneer)
Age at release: 65
Walter Kingsford as Henry (Jardin butler)
Age at release: 58
Arthur Q. Bryan as Book salesman
Age at release: 42
Charles Lane as Dr. Prouty (coroner)
Age at release: 36
Honorable Wu as Lee (Matthews butler)
Age at release: Unknown