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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792861010
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861019
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: 38849
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 20, 1944
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Every time I meet a Chan I meet trouble. Charlie ChanNumber Three Son Tommy comes to the aid of a damsel in distress by offering Charlie Chan s services in this top-notch whodunnit fare (Variety) starring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong.Leah Manning (Joan Woodbury) has never stopped searching for her father s murderer although the police and the DA gave up long ago. And now to add insult to injury an expert criminologist has written a novel accusing her mother of the crime! Charlie s investigation leads him to a cutthroat gang of gem thieves out to steal a wealth of diamonds hidden in a porcelain Chinese cat!System Requirements: Running Time 65 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 027616908322 Manufacturer No: 1006671
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Chasing Ghosts in a Funhouse....
1944's "The Chinese Cat" pits famous detective Charlie Chan, here played by Sidney Toler, against a murderous diamond smuggling gang. The famous Honolulu detective, seconded to the U.S. Government for the war effort, is assisted by series regulars Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) and nervous cab driver Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland).
Chan is asked to investigate a cold case involving the locked room murder of the husband of a wealthy socialite, who has now been acccused of the ... Read More
Rating: - Murder is His Business
A man is working on a chess game. Someone enters and fires two shots; Thomas Manning is found dead in a locked room. There are no clues, and the case is dropped. Miss Manning visits to ask Charlie Chan for help. A novel was written that accuses her mother of the crime. [There are jokes sprinkled in the dialogue for amusement. The prices date this picture.] A telephone call summons Chan to give him information about the murder. But a stranger makes sure he will tell no tales. Detective Dennis shows up, ... Read More
Rating:  - The Best Entry From THE CHANTOLOGY Box Set
The 6 films in the box set basically concentrated on Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan joining the US Government during WII and solving mysteries involving weapons and other sundry items involved with the government. Due to the time era, Fox had dropped the series in fear of losing profits on the series and due to the anti-oriental sentiment at the time. B studio, Monogram picked the series up. "The Chinese Cat" deviates from the usual Chan films during this period and concentrates on murder and diamond smuggling ... Read More
Rating: - Serial Villain Reunion
I knew I was going to have fun with this film just from seeing some of the names in the credits. Cy Kendall was the king of the rackets in the first Green Hornet serial. Anthony Warde was Killer Kane to Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers in the single Buck serial. And John Davidson, who has a nice turn here as two creepy twins, was the Ghost in one of the Dick Tracy serials.
Plus there's I. Stanford Jolley,who was in every single B-movie and serial ever made (well, most of them, anyway).
Chan ... Read More
Rating: - Among the Best of Monogram's Chan Films--But Still Best Left to Hardcore Fans and Collectors
Loosely based on novels by Earl Derr Biggers, 20th Century Fox's Charlie Chan series proved an audience favorite--but when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the studio feared audiences would turn against its Asian hero. This was a miscalculation: actor Sidney Toler took the role to "poverty row" Monogram Studios, where he continued to portray the character in eleven more popular films made between 1944 and his death in 1947.
20th Century Fox had regarded the Chan films as inexpensive "B" movies, but even so ... Read More
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