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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally abandon the case. Six months later, victim’s daughter Leah Manning, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the aid of Charlie Chan and Number 3 Son. Additional murders follow, leading to a climactic confrontation in a seemingly deserted “Fun House.”
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