The Jade Mask (1944) more movies like this

directed by Phil Rosen
featuring Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke, Janet Warren, Edith Evanson

An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old House melodramatics and a generous dose of comedy. The venerable Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) is this time assigned by the government to establish the whereabouts of Harper (Frank Reicher), a scientist experimenting with a ...

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The Shanghai Cobra (1945) more movies like this

directed by Phil Karlson
featuring Sidney Toler, Addison Richards, Benson Fong, James B. Cardwell, James Flavin, Joan Barclay, Mantan Moreland, Walter Fenner, Arthur Loft, Gene Roth, George Chandler, Janet Warren, Joe Devlin, Paul Newlan, Roy Gordon

Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production values to his advantage in two Charlie Chan whodunits: The Shanghai Cobra (1945) and Dark Alibi (1946). Karlson added touches of film noir to the usual hoary Chan melodramatics and the result was arguably the best of the ...

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