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7.6/10   482 votes
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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:
Enjoyable Charlie Chan mystery more (9 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)
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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Trevor Bardette ... Hindu businessman (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone ... Fingerprint expert (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler ... Lefty, the Cop (uncredited)
Frank Coghlan Jr. ... Frank O'Shaughnessy aka Gilroy (uncredited)
Catherine Craig ... Stewardess (uncredited)
Alan Davis ... Pilot (uncredited)
Dorothy Dearing ... Mrs. Percy (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee ... Bill, the Cop (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn ... Cop (uncredited)
Frank Fanning ... Cop (uncredited)
Carl Faulkner ... Cop (uncredited)
Bud Geary ... Mechanic #2 (uncredited)
Shemp Howard ... Shorty McCoy (The Canarsie Kid) (uncredited)
Paul Kruger ... Guard (uncredited)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson ... In police lineup, next to Shemp Howard (uncredited)
Lee Phelps ... Joe, the Cop (uncredited)
Charles Tannen ... Voice of Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Shirley Warde ... Mrs. Felton (uncredited)
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Directed by
Harry Lachman 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Earl Derr Biggers  characters
Lester Ziffren  writer

Produced by
Sol M. Wurtzel .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Cyril J. Mockridge (uncredited)
 
Cinematography by
Virgil Miller 
 
Film Editing by
Louis R. Loeffler  (as Louis Loeffler)
 
Art Direction by
Lewis H. Creber  (as Lewis Creber)
Richard Day 
 
Set Decoration by
Thomas Little 
 
Costume Design by
Herschel McCoy  (as Herschel)
 
Sound Department
Joseph E. Aiken .... sound
Harry M. Leonard .... sound
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sam Benson .... wardrobe supervisor (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Emil Newman .... musical director
Leo Arnaud .... orchestrator (uncredited)
 

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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:
Charlie Chan: Happy situation never see light of day if truth kept in dark. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Charlie Chan's Chance (1932) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Enjoyable Charlie Chan mystery, 7 February 2005
8/10
Author: Chris Gaskin from Derby, England

Murder Over New York is one of the better Chan mysteries and I've just seen this for the first time.

In this one, Charlie Chan is visiting New York to attend a police convention. At the same time, people who are involved with aircraft plants are being murdered and he decides to help with the investigation, along with his Number 2 son. These murders turn out to be the results of sabotage at the aircraft plants and Chan helps to identify the murderer...

Charlie Chan is played well by Sidney Toler and the rest of the cast includes Sen Yung as his Number 2 son and Marjorie Weaver.

I rather liked this mystery and is worth having if you like this sort of thing.

Rating: 3 and a half stars out of 5.

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