Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection
Shadows Over Chinatown
Chan follows the trail of a blood-chilling wave of torso slayings!
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
- Original title
- Shadows Over Chinatown
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Mar 21, 2024 · via TMDB
I was generally a fan of the "Charlie Chan" movies with Sidney Toler and this is one of the better ones. To San Francisco he and fairly hapless No. 2 son "Jimmy" (Victor Sen Yung) travel to assist their police with a mysterious murder investigation. That's not all, though. There's a missing person to be found too. "Mary" (Tanis Chandler) has gone awol and her doting mother (Mary Gordon) and her rather drippy fiancé "Jeff" (Bruce Kellogg) are at their wits end. It doesn't help that our sleuthing genius quickly discovers that this absentee once worked with his original victim. The plot thickens and the pair - assisted ably by the cowardy custard, and only sparingly used, "Birmingham Brown" (Mantan Moreland) - must get to the bottom of things before "Mary" comes a cropper. The plot here is a bit more internecine and sophisticated than with many of these adventures. That said, there is a maybe just a little too much coincidence as the thing progresses but I'm sure "Charlie" would have a profound ancestral adage for there being no such thing as luck! There's the tinies of twists at the end and en route it moves along well for an hour. It's always nice to see the original and best Holmesian "Mrs. Hudson" in a film, too!
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Amazon Video
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Mantan Moreland
Birmingham Brown
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Tanis Chandler
Mary Conover
John Gallaudet
Craig Winfield
Paul Bryar
Mike Rogan
Bruce Kellogg
Jack Tilford
Al Bridge
Captain Allen
Mary Gordon
Mrs. Conover
Dorothy Granger
Joan Mercer
Jack Norton
Cosgrove
George Eldredge
Chief Lannigan
Lyle Latell
Police Clerk
Mira McKinney
Kate Johnson
Terry O. Morse
Director
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Charlie Chan's Chance
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Castle in the Desert
Charlie Chan Carries On
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Charlie Chan in Panama
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Dead Men Tell
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Charlie Chan in Rio
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Murder Over New York
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
The Black Camel
The Golden Eye
Madam City Hunter
A Shot in the Dark
The Thin Man Goes Home
Take the Money and Run
Another Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
LaRoy, Texas
Song of the Thin Man
Porridge
The Glass Key
Indemnity
Fun with Dick and Jane
The Blue Gardenia
Turner & Hooch
Big Trouble
Nancy Drew
The Mirror Crack'd
My Blue Heaven
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Jun 27, 1946
