Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat
1944 film by Phil Rosen
- May 20, 1944 (1944-05-20)
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The Chinese Cat (also titled Murder in the Funhouse) is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.
Plot
Mr. Manning is murdered in his study while the door is locked from the inside. Police close the case after 6 months. A girl contacts Charlie Chan to have a look before he leaves in 48 hours. Twins are involved in a diamond-smuggling ring after the Kohinoor Diamonds are stolen; one twin is killed and the other living twin masquerades as a ghost tricking Birmingham Brown. Mr. Manning had the largest stone stored in the secret compartment of a Chinese cat statue, and doublecrossed his associates. Movie ends in a carnival funhouse with police arresting the diamond-smuggling ring for three murders. Rival author of Manning Murder Solved book must now pay $20,000 to Chinese War Relief after a lost bet with Charlie Chan about the murderer's identity.
Cast
- Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
- Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown, Taxi Driver
- Joan Woodbury as Leah Manning
- Benson Fong as Tommy Chan, #3 Son
- Ian Keith as Dr. Paul Recknik
- Sam Flint as Thomas Manning
- Betty Blythe as Mrs. Manning
- Cy Kendall as Webster Deacon
- John Davidson as twins Karl Karzos/Kurt Karzos
- Weldon Heyburn as Detective Lt. Harvey Dennis
- Anthony Warde as Catlen
- Jack Norton as hotel desk clerk
- Luke Chan as Wu Sang, curio shop owner
- George Chandler as hotel doorman (uncredited)
- Daisy Bufford as Carolina, the maid (uncredited)
Production
The film was the second Charlie Chan movie from Monogram. It was originally called Charlie Chan and the Perfect Crime and filming started on 4 January 1944.[1]
This is the film where Birmingham Brown is permanently hired as Charlie Chan's chauffeur. He is looking for a new job after the guilty criminals blow up his taxicab with a bomb.
See also
References
- ^ Of Local Origin New York Times 10 Dec 1943: 31.
External links
- The Chinese Cat film details at The Charlie Chan Family Home
- Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat at IMDb
- Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat at the TCM Movie Database
- Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat at AllMovie
- Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Phil Rosen
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- The Path She Chose (1920)
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- The World's Champion (1922)
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- Handle With Care (1922)
- The Bonded Woman (1922)
- Across the Continent (1922)
- Being Respectable (1924)
- Abraham Lincoln (1924)
- Lovers' Lane (1924)
- This Woman (1924)
- The Bridge of Sighs (1925)
- The Heart of a Siren (1925)
- The White Monkey (1925)
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- Rose of the Tenements (1926)
- The Adorable Deceiver (1926)
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- A Woman's Heart (1926)
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- The Cancelled Debt (1927)
- Closed Gates (1927)
- The Woman Who Did Not Care (1927)
- The Cruel Truth (1927)
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- Stranded (1927)
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- Undressed (1928)
- Modern Mothers (1928)
- The Branded Man (1928)
- Marry the Girl (1928)
- The Apache (1928)
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- The Faker (1929)
- Extravagance (1930)
- Lotus Lady (1930)
- The Rampant Age (1930)
- Second Honeymoon (1930)
- Worldly Goods (1930)
- El Codigo Penal (1930)
- Alias – the Bad Man (1931)
- Arizona Terror (1931)
- Branded Men (1931)
- The Pocatello Kid (1931)
- Two Gun Man (1931)
- Range Law (1931)
- Young Blood (1932)
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- The Gay Buckaroo (1932)
- The Vanishing Frontier (1932)
- A Man's Land (1932)
- Texas Gun Fighter (1932)
- Klondike (1932)
- Lena Rivers (1932)
- Self Defense (1932)
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- Black Beauty (1933)
- Devil's Mate (1933)
- Kiss of Araby (1933)
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- Born to Gamble (1935)
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- Ellis Island (1936)
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- The President's Mystery (1936)
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- Tango (1936)
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- Roaring Timber (1937)
- Two Wise Maids (1937)
- Youth on Parole (1937)
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- Forgotten Girls (1940)
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- The Crooked Road (1940)
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