Derek Winnert

Charlie Chan in Rio ** (1941, Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright) – Classic Movie Review 9042

Director Harry Lachman’s 1941 thriller Charlie Chan in Rio brings back Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan and offers low-budget crime mystery fun in Rio de Janeiro, with Charlie Chan prompting the cops to fathom a […]

Nov, 02 · in Reviews

Charlie Chan in Panama ** (1940, Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 9041

Director Norman Foster’s 1940 thriller Charlie Chan in Panama once more stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who this time is involved in the Second World War again, this time trying to stop ship bombers […]

Nov, 01 · in Reviews

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise ** (1940, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Robert Lowery, Don Beddoe, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 9040

Director Eugene Forde’s 1940 thriller Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise offers yet another murder aboard ship for Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) to investigate, this time of a London Bobby, as Chan cruises around the world from […]

Nov, 01

Charlie Chan on Broadway *** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 9039

Director Eugene Forde’s 1937 mystery crime thriller Charlie Chan on Broadway stars Warner Oland as Chan, Keye Luke as Lee Chan, Joan Marsh as Joan Wendall, J Edward Bromberg as Murdock, Donald Woods as Speed […]

Oct, 31

Charlie Chan’s Secret ** (1936, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley) – Classic Movie Review 9038

Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]

Oct, 31

Charlie Chan at the Olympics *** (1937, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9037

All the team are on top form in director H Bruce Humberstone’s droll 1937 episode Charlie Chan at the Olympics, set in pre-World War Two Berlin and including newsreel shots of the 1936 Olympic Games, […]

Oct, 31

Charlie Chan at the Circus ** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, John McGuire, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford) – Movie Review 9036

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Circus is a middling, though still entertaining enough episode, in which Warner Oland stars as Chan, who probes a circus killing, along with the help […]

Oct, 31

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