Black Magic (1944)
Chan stalks a fiendish murderer!
Género : Comedia, Crimen, Misterio, Suspense
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 7M
Director : Phil Rosen
Escritor : George Callahan
Sinopsis
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.
El excéntrico multimillonario Lionel Twain invita a cenar a su castillo a los cinco detectives más importantes de la historia: el chino Sidney Wang, el neoyorquino Dick Charleston, la inglesa Jessica Marbles, el belga Milo Perrier y Sam Diamond, residente en San Francisco. Después de ser recibidos por un mayordomo ciego, Twain les explica durante la cena el motivo de la reunión: a medianoche se producirá un asesinato y el que sea capaz de resolverlo se llevará un millón de dólares.
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Charlie Chan (Warren Oland) va a la tierra de las pirámides para investigar el crimen de un arqueólogo momificado.
Charlie Chan es contratado por la hermana de un joven británico condenado a muerte por un asesinato que la chica asegura no cometió. Sus investigaciones le llevan a una casa solariega, donde todos parecen ocultar algo.
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Charlie Chan es un célebre detective de San Francisco que intenta resolver un caso de asesinato con la ayuda de su torpe nieto.
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
A young lady and her father are threatened by a gang named the Five Fingers. Private eye Charlie comes to the rescue.
En esta ocasión el detective oriental Charlie Chan resuelve el caso de una heredera a quien se presume muerta, aparece sana y salva y posteriormente es asesinada de verdad. (FILMAFFINIT)
En 1828, la familia Pyncheon, que está en bancarrota, luchan por Seven Gables, la mansión familiar. Para conseguir la casa, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtiene la falsa condena de su hermano Clifford por asesinato. Hepzibah, la dulce prometida de Clifford, espera pacientemente veinte años su liberación, por lo que Clifford y su antiguo compañero de celda, el abolicionista Matthew, tienen un plan en mente.
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
El compañero del detective privado Mike Hammer ha sido asesinado. Ahora, todos sus esfuerzos se centran en descubrir al culpable. Sin embargo, hay alguien más interesado en las investigaciones.
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
