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Tag Archives: Phil Rosen
The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945) Phil Rosen, Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Donald Douglas, Mystery, Drama
Famed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Read More »
Road to Happiness (1941) Phil Rosen, John Boles, Mona Barrie, Billy Lee, Drama, Musical, Romance
Jeff Carter, a singer down on his luck, turns to radio acting as a means of supporting his young son Danny. Read More »
Young Blood (1932) Phil Rosen, Bob Steele, Helen Foster, Charles King, Western
Nick is a modern day Robin Hood. But he has to split with his gang and the crooked Sheriff. Read More »
The Red Dragon (1945) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Charlie Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun. Read More »
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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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The Scarlet Clue (1945) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Charlie Chan investigates the theft of government radar papers (the laboratory is located in the same building as a radio station!) with the help of Number Three Son Tommy and comic sidekick Birmingham Brown.
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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Arthur Loft
A scientist working on an important new invention which will protect Allied shipping from U-boat torpedoes has been assigned Secret Service security protection. Amazingly, despite the fact that his laboratory and experiments are located on the upper floor of his Washington mansion, he decides to host a cocktail party for friends on the first floor. Even though several of his guests are foreign nationals with shadowy pasts, he refuses to allow his bodyguards to attend because their presence might offend them. When he is killed by unknown means before joining them, the resultant summary investigation includes Honolulu detective Charlie Chan and children Tommy and Iris, later joined by Birmingham Brown, the chauffeur of one of the guests. When a preliminary autopsy reveals the scientist was electrocuted, Charlie and his associates must decide which of the suspects and red herrings is the guilty party.
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