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Posts Tagged "1940s"
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Detour *** (1992, Tom Neal Jr, Lea Lavish, Susanna Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9370
Director Wade Williams’s 1992 thriller Detour stars Tom Neal Jr, who plays his father Tom Neal’s old part in a quite effective, close colour remake of the 1945 black and white cult B-movie classic Detour, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Feathered Serpent * (1948, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Carol Forman) – Classic Movie Review 9062
The surprise return of Keye Luke as Number One son Lee Chan (alongside Victor Sen Young as Number Two son Tommy Chan) is the main pleasure of director William Beaudine’s minor, feeble, late Charlie Chan […]
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 […]
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 […]