Derek Winnert

Dangerous Money * (1946, Sidney Toler, Gloria Warren, Victor Sen Yung, Rick Vallin) – Classic Movie Review 9068

Director Terry O Morse’s 1946 comedy crime mystery thriller Dangerous Money is a disappointingly poor and predictable Charlie Chan episode, with a lack of the required pace and tension, as Chan (Sidney Toler) and Number two […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

Shadows Over Chinatown * (1946, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung) – Classic Movie Review 9067

Director Terry Morse’s 1946 thriller Shadows over Chinatown is an especially feeble Charlie Chan entry as Earl Derr Biggers’s oriental detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) searches for a missing young woman, Mary Conover (Tanis Chandler), […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

Dark Alibi *** (1946, Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Teala Loring, Ben Carter) – Classic Movie Review 9066

Safe-crackings, faked fingerprints, framed jailbirds, shoot-outs and cell block riots are all relished here by esteemed B-movie director Phil Karlson, who gives this 1946 Charlie Chan entry Dark Alibi welcome pace and tension. Sidney Toler […]

Nov, 12

The Charlie Chan movies – Classic Movies

The Charlie Chan movies are: The House Without a Key (1926) (considered lost) is the first onscreen appearance of Charlie Chan with George Kuwa, The Chinese Parrot (1927) with Japanese actor Sōjin Kamiyama as Chan, Behind That […]

Nov, 11

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen * (1981, Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Lee Grant, Brian Keith, Roddy McDowall, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9065

Director Clive Donner’s misguided 1981 comedy mystery thriller Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen at least has a good cast on its side: Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Lee Grant, Brian […]

Nov, 11

Mr Moto’s Gamble ** (1938, Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari, Douglas Fowley, Jayne Regan, Harold Huber) – Classic Movie Review 9064

Director James Tinling’s 1938 20th Century Fox crime mystery series thriller Mr Moto’s Gamble is the third movie in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable casebook. The original screenplay is by Charles Belden and Jerome Cady, based on […]

Nov, 10

The Sky Dragon * (1949, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone, Joel Marston, Noel Neill, Iris Adrian, Elena Verdugo, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 9063

The Thirties and Forties Charlie Chan series ends with a dying gasp in director Lesley Selander’s 1949 The Sky Dragon, perhaps the weakest entry of all the series, as Roland Winters returns for the sixth […]

Nov, 10

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