Derek Winnert

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Behind That Curtain ** (1929, Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 9069

Director Irving Cummings’s 1929 Behind That Curtain takes its place in movie history as the impossibly creaky but still intriguing first Charlie Chan film in sound. It is based on Earl Derr Biggers’s novel of […]

Nov, 14

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Nov, 09

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