Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat [The Chinese Cat] ** (1944, Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 9053

Sidney Toler stars once again in Phil Rosen’s 1944 murder thriller Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat [The Chinese Cat] as Earl Derr Biggers’ oriental detective Charlie Chan, who this time is in hot pursuit […]

Nov, 03

City in Darkness [Charlie Chan in City in Darkness] ** (1939, Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 9052

Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller City in Darkness [Charlie Chan in City in Darkness] is a moderate, rather disappointing series episode. It wastes some top guest character actors and gets little […]

Nov, 03

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9051

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a gripping series episode with a useful guest star turn from Cesar Romero as a conjurer called Rhadini helping Charlie Chan […]

Nov, 03

Charlie Chan in Reno *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 9050

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in Reno again stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who this time heads for Reno to clear innocent Hawaiian woman Mary Whitman (Pauline Moore), his […]

Nov, 03

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service ** (1944, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Arthur Loft) – Classic Movie Review 9049

Director Phil Rosen’s 1944 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in the Secret Service re-launches the franchise after 20th Century Fox axed the series following the 1942 Castle in the Desert. Happily, Sidney Toler returns […]

Nov, 03

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