Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.
GENRES:
Mystery
DIRECTION:
James P. Hogan
Same Director or Cast
Cast & Characters
| Ralph Bellamy | Ellery Queen |
| Margaret Lindsay | Nikki Porter |
| Charley Grapewin | Insp. Queen |
| Spring Byington | Carlotta Emerson |
| H.B. Warner | Ray Jardin |
| James Burke | Sgt. Velie |
| Douglass Dumbrille | John Matthews |
| John Beal | Walter Matthews |
| Linda Hayes | Marian Jardin |
| Sidney Blackmer | Anthony Rhodes |
| Walter Kingsford | Henry (Jardin butler) |
| Honorable Wu | Lee (Matthews butler) |