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11 May 1945 (USA) morePlot:
Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Chan Films Go More Comedic With Moreland more (22 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Sidney Toler | ... | Charlie Chan | |
| Mantan Moreland | ... | Birmingham Brown, Chauffeur | |
| Virginia Brissac | ... | Mrs. Marsh | |
| Ben Carter | ... | Ben Carter | |
| Benson Fong | ... | Tommy Chan | |
| Robert Homans | ... | Capt. Flynn (as Robert E. Homans) | |
| Jack Norton | ... | Willie Rand | |
| Janet Shaw | ... | Gloria Bayne | |
| Helen Deverell | ... | Diane Hall (as Helen Devereaux) | |
| Victoria Faust | ... | Hulda Swenson / Janet Carter |
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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Mantan Moreland and real-life nightclub partner Ben Carter (playing himself) recreate two of their nightclub routines. moreQuotes:
Tommy Chan: When it comes to detective work, I know my P's and Q's.Charlie Chan: But are you familiar with rest of alphabet?
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This was my first look at Charlie Chan's, or should I say Sidney Toler's assistant "Birmingham Brown" (Mantan Moreland.) He certainly changed the face of these movies, and I don't mean that as some sort of racial pun. What I mean is Moreland added silliness to these films, although he's such a likable guy I didn't mind. Many times he even made me laugh out loud.
Also new to me at the time of my first viewing of this (sometime in the 1990s) was Number Three Son "Tommy," played by Benson Fong. I liked him a lot, but then I have liked all of Charlie's kids.
Anyway, with the addition of Moreland - who was strictly added for comedy - with Chan's witty proverbs, the repartee between father and son, and so on.....these Mongram Charlie Chan movies turned out to be almost more comedy than mystery.....but they still entertained.
The most memorable scene in this movie had to be something shocking and violent, the opposite of how I've been describing these latter-day Chan films. In that scene, a trap door in an elevator suddenly sends a man plummeting to his death. Most of the film is talk but it's okay. This whodunit had a surprise ending. I guessed wrong, but that's nothing new.