Shanghai Chest (1948)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Roland Winters	...	Charlie Chan
	Mantan Moreland	...	Birmingham Brown
	Tim Ryan	...	Lt. Mike Ruark
	Victor Sen Yung	...	Tommy Chan (as Victor Sen Young)
	Deannie Best	...	Phyllis Powers
	Tristram Coffin	...	Edward Seward
	John Alvin	...	Victor Armstrong
	Russell Hicks	...	Dist. Atty. Frank Bronson
	Pierre Watkin	...	Judge Wesley Armstrong
	Philip Van Zandt	...	Joseph Pindello
	Milton Parsons	...	Mr. Grail, Undertaker
	Olaf Hytten	...	Bates, The Butler
	Erville Alderson	...	Walter Somervale
	George Eldredge	...	Sgt. Pat Finley

Storyline

Vic Armstrong arrives at his Uncle Judge Armstrong's home just in time to answer the telephone. Unknown to him, his uncle has just been murdered and the culprit is right there in the room with him! Phyllis Powers, on the other end of the line, recognizes Vic's voice, but just then Vic is knocked unconscious by the murderer. When he awakens, he (for reasons known only to movie mystery writers) pulls the knife out of his uncle's back, thus putting his fingerprints all over it, and just in time for the police, having been called by a worried Phyllis, to discover him standing over the body. Well, we know he didn't do it, but the police don't agree. Can Charlie Chan recognize the boy's innocence, and find the real murderer before Vic is sent into durance vile, or even worse? Written by Anonymous  

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