Black Magic
"Chan stalks a fiendish murderer!"
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
Top Cast
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Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
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Frances Chan
Frances Chan
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Mantan Moreland
Birmingham Brown
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Joseph Crehan
Police Sgt. Matthews
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Ralph Peters
Officer Rafferty
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Jacqueline deWit
Justine Bonner
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Helen Beverly
Norma Duncan aka Nancy Wood
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Harry Depp
Charles Edwards
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Frank Jaquet
Paul Hamlin
Overview
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
Rating
7.1
/ 10
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1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Jun 30, 2022Now then, this one really struggles to get going. This time it's daughter "Frances" (Frances Chan) who helps "Pop" investigate some odd activity at the home of the new employers of "Birmingham Brown" (Mantan Moreland), who has been released by "Charlie" - who just wants to get back to Honolulu. When hypnotism causes one woman to take a step too far; the race is on to thwart the mysterious, evil, perpetrator before anyone else comes a cropper. Moreland tries too hard, his daftness is too contrived and strained, and though he could be annoying from time to time, it misses "Jimmy" too. The psychic/occult theme has provided well for these films, but maybe this one tries to squeeze just a little too much from an already well exhausted fruit (might that be a "Charlie-ism"?) and i found it quite a long watch. It has it's moments of suspense, though, it's not terrible - it's just lacking certain important ingredients.
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