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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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Pretty nifty 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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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: [to Jimmy] Will inform mother that aid from Number Two Son like interest on mortgage - impossible to escape. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) more

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Pretty nifty, 19 April 2009
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Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

This film is about a deadly poison that is contained in small glass globes that is used to kill. This is apparently done to hide an espionage ring intent on stealing plans for a new American bomber. Now much of this plot was repeated in other Chan films, THE JADE MASK and THE DOCKS OF NEW ORLEANS. Additionally, it was first used in MR. WONG, DETECTIVE--all had the exploding glass globes--a plot element that obviously has been overused. It was interesting in MURDER OVER NEW YORK, but by these later films it was rather passé.

Fortunately, the rest of the film was fresh and the plot worked out very well--with a nifty conclusion where, of course, the culprit reveals himself. However, no plane could fly the way this one did--especially in 1940. Such extreme dives and rapid ascents were pretty silly out of this already obsolete plane.

By the way, in a small role as a porter you'll see Frank Coghlan Jr.--the same actor who played Billy Batson in the CAPTAIN MARVEL serial. According to IMDb, Mr. Coughlan is 93 years old and retired from the film industry.

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