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Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
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27 June 1946 (USA) moreTagline:
There's TERROR In Every Clue! morePlot:
Charlie investigates murders connected with insurance fraud. This one is set in San Francisco's Chinatown. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Not the best, but interesting never the less... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sidney Toler | ... | Charlie Chan | |
| Mantan Moreland | ... | Birmingham Brown | |
| Victor Sen Yung | ... | Jimmy Chan | |
| Tanis Chandler | ... | Mary Conover | |
| John Gallaudet | ... | Craig Winfield, alias Jeff Hay | |
| Paul Bryar | ... | Mike Rogan | |
| Bruce Kellogg | ... | Jack Tilford aka John Thompson | |
| Al Bridge | ... | Captain Allen | |
| Mary Gordon | ... | Mrs. Conover | |
| Dorothy Granger | ... | Joan Mercer | |
| Jack Norton | ... | Cosgrove | |
| George Eldredge | ... | Chief Lannigan | |
| Tyra Vaughn | ... | Miss Chalmers | |
| Lyle Latell | ... | Police Clerk | |
| Mira McKinney | ... | Kate Johnson |
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This CHAN entry is a little different from the opening. First, there is a sequence in the Missing Persons Bureau with an off-screen narrator explaining the goings on. Then the "torso killings"--shades of the Black Dahlia. I don't recall such gruesome deaths in the earlier Chans, although here they are only spoken of. The plot is pure Monogram Chan for better or worse(a scorecard would come in handy with this outing as well as most of the others). The interaction between Toler, Sen Yung and Mantan Moreland is as always fun to watch. Much has been made of Moreland's parts in these films and their supposed "racist" overtones. Maybe so, but IMNTBHO him playing a scared bumbler is no different than Lou Costello playing a scared bumbler in one of the A&C flicks---and they are both super at it. If all else fails there is beautiful Tanis Chandler to ogle! Why she never became a true star is beyond me--she's a sight.