 | | The Charlie Chan Chanthology 6-pk - DVD Format: DVD
Running Time: 390 Min.
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| SYNOPSIS
CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE: The World War II years, filled with espionage and spies of all sorts, were perfect for the foibles of Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler). And in his 1944 venture, America's Number One Chinese detective is enlisted by the Secret Service to find the person who murdered the inventor of a top-secret device.
Charlie takes his time as he investigates the case of a scientist murdered for devising a way to protect US forces from German U-boats. Bedeviled by a gaggle of eccentrics, his nervous assistant (Mantan Moreland) and his exuberantly in-the-way offspring (Benson Fong and Marianne Quon), Charlie must decide which of a houseful of guests is actually the plan-purloining Master Spy!
CHINESE CAT, THE: Number Three Son Tommy comes to the aid of a damsel in distress - by offering Charlie Chan's services - in this "top-notch whodunnit fare" (Variety) starring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong. Leah Manning (Joan Woodbury) has never stopped searching for her father's murderer, although the police and the DA gave up long ago. And now, to add insult to injury, an "expert criminologist" has written a "novel" accusing her mother of the crime! Charlie's investigation leads him to a cutthroat gang of gem thieves out to steal a wealth of diamonds hidden in a porcelain Chinese cat!
JADE MASK, THE: Some families have reunions – this one has alibis! In this thrilling 1945 endeavor, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) finds himself at odds with an entire family, any one of whom could be a killer! "Helped" by his pseudo-intellectual Number Four Son (Edwin Luke) and his panicky assistant Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), Charlie investigates the recent murder of a brilliant but much-loathed scientist (Frank Reicher) who invented a gas that makes wood as strong as steel. But the investigation is anything but elementary, as Charlie sleuths his way through suspicious scientists, sultry sisters, a silent cousin and a butler with a very stiff upper lip!
MEETING AT MIDNIGHT: Released in 1944 as Black Magic, this “unusually absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) mystery was celebrated on the revival circuit, making it one of the best-known films of the series! Filled with fun spiritualist gags, like levitating hankies and gamboling skeletons, Meeting at Midnight is a rendezvous you’ll want to experience again and again! When Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) gets a job as a butler for the Bonner family, he doesn’t know that they’re con artists who specialize in trick séances. But things get really spooky when a murder occurs and Charlie Chan’s daughter Frances becomes a suspect! Charlie (Sidney Toler) surmises that nearly everybody has a motive – but even he doesn’t yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!
SHANGHAI COBRA, THE: From the director of Kansas City Confidential and The Silencers comes this universal Chan mystery. Containing a number of film noir elements unique to the series (such as a weary young detective, stark urban sets and a grown-up romance), The Shanghai Cobra is one of the most striking Chans of all! Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called to investigate a strange and complicated series of mysterious murders by cobra venom. Soon Charlie, Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) and ever-present assistant Birmhingham Brown are on the trail of an escaped con from Shanghai who’s out to rob a government vault of its valuable
About the Film- Stars: CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Gwen Kenyon, Arthur Loft; CHINESE CAT, THE: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Joan Woodbury, Benson Fong, Ian Keith; JADE MASK, THE: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke, Hardie Albright; MEETING AT MIDNIGHT: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Joseph Crehan; SHANGHAI COBRA, THE: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, James Cardwell, Joan Barclay; SCARLET CLUE, THE: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong
- Director: CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE: Phil Rosen; CHINESE CAT, THE: Phil Rosen; JADE MASK, THE: Phil Rosen; MEETING AT MIDNIGHT: Phil Rosen; SHANGHAI COBRA, THE: Phil Karlson; SCARLET CLUE, THE: Phil Rosen
- Producer: CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE: Phillip N. Krasne, James S. Burkett; CHINESE CAT, THE: Philip N. Krasne, James S. Burkett; JADE MASK, THE: James S. Burkett; MEETING AT MIDNIGHT: Philip Krasne; SHANGHAI COBRA, THE: James S. Burkett; SCARLET CLUE, THE: James S. Burkett
- Writer: CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE: George Callahan; CHINESE CAT, THE: George Callahan; JADE MASK, THE: George Callahan; MEETING AT MIDNIGHT: George Callahan; SHANGHAI COBRA, THE: George Callahan, George Wallace Sayre; SCARLET CLUE, THE: George Callahan
- Genre: None
- CC: No
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