Shadows over Chinatown (1946)
Directed by Terry Morse / Terry O. Morse
Genres - Mystery |
Release Date - Jun 27, 1946 (USA - Unknown), Jun 27, 1946 (USA) |
Run Time - 64 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over Chinatown. This time out, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) and his erstwhile assistants, son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) and chauffeur Birmingham (Mantan Moreland), investigate a clever insurance scam. The crooks are using a series of brutal "torso murders" to rip off an insurance company by claiming that the long-missing Mary Conover (Tanis Chandler) is a victim of the unknown murderer. Actually, Mary is in hiding from the insurance hucksters themselves, forcing Chan to race against time (if "race" is the correct word) to save the girl from certain doom. Perennial movie drunk Jack Norton has all the film's best lines as a garrulous boozer who isn't quite what he seems.
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con/scam, detective, fraud, gangster, insurance, investigation, investigator, private-detective