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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792861027
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861027
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: 66 minutes
Sales Rank: 45046
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 1945
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Some families have reunions this one has alibis! In this thrilling 1945 endeavor Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) finds himself at odds with an entire family any one of whom could be a killer! Helped by his pseudo-intellectual Number Four Son (Edwin Luke) and his panicky partner Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) Charlie investigates the recent murder of a brilliant but much-loathed scientist (Frank Reicher) who invented a gas that makes wood as strong as steel. But the investigation is anything but elementary as Charlie sleuths his way through suspicious scientists sultry sisters a silent cousin and a butler with a very stiff upper lip!System Requirements: Running Time 66 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 027616908346 Manufacturer No: 1006673
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A House of Secrets...
1945's "The Jade Mask" is a better-than-average Charlie Chan mystery, featuring Sidney Toler as the famous Honolulu detective, on duty with the Secret Service for the war. Chan is assisted by Number Four Son Edward (Edwin Luke) and Driver Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), who provide comic relief when not tripping over clues.
The story opens in the laboratory of a paranoid scientist named Harper, who is working on a secret formula for the war effort, one that will make wood as hard ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent
We got this movie on time it was delightful and well made. Digitally remastered. Great quality video
Rating: - Interesting
I have never been disappointed with Charlie Chan movies as long as it stars Sidney Tolerand Mantan Moreland. The Jade Mask kept me waiting for the next unexpected event.
Rating: - Among the Best of the Monogram Chan Films
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 films made between 1944 and his death in 1947.
20th Century Fox had regarded the Chan films as inexpensive "B" movies, but ... Read More
Rating: - Monogram Studios best effort
This movie has a great " who dun it " story line. The action on the grounds and the grounds themselves add a neat aura of mysteriousness to it all. Mantan Morelands presence always lends a hand to lighten things up. And we see the only appearence of " bookworm " son Eddie Chan.
You will give this film effort high marks if: you are a mystery movie fan, a Charlie Chan fan, or a young parent looking for a good, old classic to feel comfortable having the young ones watch. You can't go wrong.
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