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Director:
Harry Lachman
Writers:
Earl Derr Biggers (characters)
Lester Ziffren (writer)
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Release Date:
13 December 1940 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller more
Plot:
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Fun, but not as good as most of the other Fox Chans. more (9 total)

Cast

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Sidney Toler ... Charlie Chan
Marjorie Weaver ... Patricia Shaw
Robert Lowery ... David Elliot
Ricardo Cortez ... George Kirby
Donald MacBride ... Insp. Vance
Melville Cooper ... Herbert Fenton aka Snuffy
Joan Valerie ... June Preston
Kane Richmond ... Ralph Percy
Victor Sen Yung ... Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)
John Sutton ... Richard Jeffery
Leyland Hodgson ... Robert Boggs
Clarence Muse ... Butler
Frederick Worlock ... Hugh Drake
Lal Chand Mehra ... Ramullah
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
65 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Plot holes: Charlie asks Jimmy to identify a chemical smell. Jimmy, only an undergraduate student, immediately recognizes the smell of a poison gas invented only months before and gives his father background information on it. more
Quotes:
Jimmy Chan: Say, Pop, what d'ya think about this?
Charlie Chan: Like dog chasing his own tail - getting no place.
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Movie Connections:
Follows The House Without a Key (1926) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Fun, but not as good as most of the other Fox Chans., 16 April 2000
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Author: admjtk1701 from New York, NY

"Murder Over New York" is fun, but not as good as most of the other Fox Chans. This film would have been better named, "Charlie Chan in New York", the film's working title. This is Toler's chance to play Chan in the Big Apple. There is a lot to like here, though, including guest star Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges.

This has one of my favorite Chan sayings, "Coincidence like ancient egg--leave unpleasant odour." Toler and Yung are good in this one and so is the supporting cast. But there is little or no mysterious atmosphere which I look for in these films. Still, it is good to see.

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