Derek Winnert

Docks of New Orleans * (1948, Roland Winters, Virginia Dale, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung) – Classic Movie Review 9060

Director Derwin Abrahams’s 1948 murder mystery thriller Docks of New Orleans is Roland Winters’s second outing as Earl Derr Biggers’s wily oriental detective Charlie Chan. With Winters weak and disappointing as Charlie Chan, it is […]

Nov, 08 · in Reviews

The Chinese Ring * (1947, Roland Winters, Warren Douglas, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 9059

Director William Beaudine’s 1947 murder mystery thriller The Chinese Ring stars Roland Winters in his first outing as Charlie Chan. The Chinese Ring is an extremely moderate, low-budget and low excitement Monogram Pictures B-feature, in which […]

Nov, 08 · in Reviews

The Shanghai Cobra ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Joan Barclay) – Classic Movie Review 9058

Director Phil Karlson’s 1945 low-budget Monogram Studios series thriller The Shanghai Cobra is an acceptable but slow paced and unatmospheric Charlie Chan entry. Sidney Toler again stars as Charlie Chan, who this time investigates mysterious […]

Nov, 04

The Golden Eye * (1948, Roland Winters, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Tim Ryan, Wanda McKay) – Classic Movie Review 9057

Director William Beaudine’s 1948 thriller The Golden Eye [Charlie Chan and the Golden Eye] stars Roland Winters in his fourth appearance as Charlie Chan in a weak, sluggish and unsatisfying Charlie Chan mystery. Chinese sleuth […]

Nov, 04

The Jade Mask ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke) – Classic Movie Review 9056

Director Phil Rosen’s 1945 thriller The Jade Mask again stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who this time investigates a married pair of killers (Frank Reicher, Edith Evanson) who try to prove their corpses are […]

Nov, 04

The Red Dragon [Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon] ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong) – Classic Movie Review 9055

Director Phil Rosen’s 1945 thriller The Red Dragon [Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon] is a standard, conveyor-belt late Charlie Chan entry from his Monogram Pictures phase. Sidney Toler is back again as the oriental […]

Nov, 04

Black Magic [Charlie Chan in Black Magic] * (1944, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Jacqueline de Wit, Claudia Dell) – Classic Movie Review 9054

Director Phil Rosen’s 1944 thriller Black Magic [Charlie Chan in Black Magic] [Meeting at Midnight] is a weak Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) mystery about the Oriental Detective probing a séance killing. Toler carries on regardless, […]

Nov, 04

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