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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792861034
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861035
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: 31888
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 19, 1944
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Released in 1944 as Black Magic this unusually absorbing (Los Angeles Times) mystery was celebrated on the revival circuit making it one of the best-known films of the series! Filled with fun spiritualist gags like levitating hankies and gamboling skeletons Meeting at Midnight is a rendezvous you ll want to experience again and again!When Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) gets a job as a butler for the Bonner family he doesn t know that they re con artists who specialize in trick s ances. But things get really spooky when a murder occurs and Charlie Chan s daughter Frances becomes a suspect! Charlie (Sidney Toler) surmises that nearly everybody has a motive but even he doesn t yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!System Requirements: Running Time 65 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 027616908353 Manufacturer No: 1006674
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Cherished Chan Chow!
This film was originally known as "Meeting at Midnight" but when you run the DVD you'll see that the title was changed to "Black Magic". It features Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan and Mantan Moreland is right there as needed for great comic relief. We also get to meet one of Charlie's shrewder kids who is played by the talented Frances Chan. (Yes, her real name is Chan!)
THE STORY: Mantan Moreland replaces the current butler in a big spooky house where scam artists are running seances. ... Read More
Rating:  - A Little Black Magic...
1944's "Meeting at Midnight", originally released as "Black Magic", features Sidney Toler as the famous Honolulu detective, on break from his wartime duties with the government to solve a case of murder involving his daughter Frances. Mantan Moreland provides the comic relief as Birmingham Brown, here working as the new butler for a family hosting ghostly seances.
As the story opens, a Mr. Bonner is mysteriously murdered while hosting a seance with his wife. The local police can make ... Read More
Rating: - Murder and Black Magic
The film starts with a seance at William Bonner's home. In the dark the medium falls silent; he has been shot. We see the man and woman who work the machinery behind the curtain that creates the special effects. The people around the table are taken in for questioning. Charlie Chan is summoned (his daughter Frances was there); he shows his detecting skills. Nancy Wood explains why she used a false name and attended Bonner's seance. Chan has a lot of work to do. Brown hears some strange sounds (the hidden ... Read More
Rating:  - The other good entry in the WII Chan Series
WWII brought out many phobias including anti-semitism, distrust of those of Oriental descent (the infamous story of Japanese/Americans sent to concentration camps in California was a national disgrace). The Chan series during this period adhered to the sleuth working for the government to ease any qualms the movie public may have had. Fox had dropped the series in fear of losing money, low-budget Monogram picked it up and to Fox's dismay, the series continued on successfully. This entry, as with THE CHINESE ... Read More
Rating: - Suspense
Meeting at Midnight was intriguing and suspenseful. Birminghamd and Charlie's daughter adds humor to the mystery that only Charlie's wisdom can solve.
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