{"id":31633,"date":"2023-01-28T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31633"},"modified":"2023-01-28T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:16:25","slug":"dark-alibi-1946-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31633","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dark Alibi&#8221; (1946) starring Sidney Toler &#038; Mantan Moreland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z012823zview_darkalibi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dark Alibi <\/strong><\/em>(1946)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Phil Karlson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>George Callahan, <\/strong>based on characters created by <strong>Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong, John Eldredge, Tim Ryan, Ray Walker <\/strong>and <strong>Milton Parsons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline:\u00a0 <em>THE MASTER OF MYSTERY EXPOSES A GENIUS OF CRIME!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Thomas Harley is sentenced to death for a crime he didn&#8217;t commit it will be up to Charlie Chan to prove his innocence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mantan Mooreland, who plays Charlie Chan&#8217;s valet, Birmingham, is the reason I started watching.\u00a0 Mooreland is one of my favorite comedians from that era.\u00a0 His timing and physical comedy are pure perfection.\u00a0 Mooreland has three scenes in <em>Dark Alibi<\/em> with his former vaudeville partner, Ben Carter, that are shoehorned into the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Charlie Chan films are low-budget and run just over an hour.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a great way to close out a day.\u00a0 The Chan films often set the viewer up to think one person is the villain only for it to turn out to be another.\u00a0 Thankfully, we have Charlie Chan to set us straight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Dark Alibi <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z012823zview_darkalibi2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Alibi (1946) Director:\u00a0 Phil Karlson Screenplay: George Callahan, based on characters created by Earl Derr Biggers Stars: Sidney Toler,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31679,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31633\/revisions\/31679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}