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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792861003
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861000
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 65 minutes
Sales Rank: 44698
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 1944
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
If man places self in way of finger of suspicion must not be surprised if he receive poke in the eye. Charlie ChanThe World War II years filled with espionage and spies of all sorts were perfect for the foibles of Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler). And in this 1944 venture America s Number One Chinese detective is enlisted by the Secret Service to find the person who murdered the inventor of a top-secret device.Charlie takes his time as he investigates the case of a scientist murdered for devising a way to protect US forces from German U-boats. Bedeviled by a gaggle of eccentrics his nervous assistant (Mantan Moreland) and his exuberantly in-the-way offspring (Benson Fong and Marianne Quon) Charlie must decide which of a houseful of guests is actually the plan-purloining Master Spy!System Requirements: Running Time 65 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 027616908339 Manufacturer No: 1006672
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
I'm a hugh Sidney Toler fan. I've got almost all the Charlie Chan videos he has made,and enjoy watching them when I am in a nostalgic mood. I highly recommend these videos to mystery fans!
Rating: - An Awkward Chan Mystery...
1944's "Charlie Chan in the Secret Service" features Sidney Toler as the famous Honolulu detective, now seconded to the Secret Service for the war. He is assisted in this episode by Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong), Number Two Daughter Iris (Marianne Quon), and Driver Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). Together, they must solve the mystery of how a top scientist dropped dead in a house full of guests while the plan for a secret weapon went missing.
Chan, in conjunction with his ... Read More
Rating: - An early entry but very good
Of course, I'm awarding this film five stars specifically to benefit Chan-Nazis like myself in deciding where this one fits in, rating-wise, alongside all the others.
I enjoy Sidney Toler (which this one is) and Warner Oland Chan films equally and I place this particular entry in the top 30 percent of them all. "Castle in the Desert" stands far and above ALL the rest, in my opinion, and then you have "Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask," which rates just above this entry, "Charlie Chan in the ... Read More
Rating: - Solid Performances by Sidney Toler,Mantan Moreland and Benson Fong in Mediocre Film
I like CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE although I agree with some of the other reviewers that this low budget movie has many obvious shortcomings.For the Chan fan it is still an entertaining entry about a scientist who dies mysteriously in his home which is full of house guests.His plans for a new torpedo are missing and the guests are the leading suspects in both the theft of the plans and the possible murder of the scientist.Charlie Chan is called in as an agent of the Secret Service to assist in ... Read More
Rating:  - Cheapest of the cheap Chan's
An inventor of a new weapon is being doggedly protected by government agents. He tells them to back off as they are an insult to his guests. He keeps the plans safe in his pocket. We see ominous eye pears out of the shadows. We know that any minute our scientist will be shot or stabbed. He drops dead. Yep they call in Inspector Jones (Arthur Loft) who in turn calls in Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler).
The props look like cardboard and toys. The background music is atrocious as they try to build ... Read More
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