{"id":32050,"date":"2023-03-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32050"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:13:08","slug":"the-scarlet-clue-1945-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32050","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Scarlet Clue&#8221; (1945) 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\/z030123zview_scarletclue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Scarlet Clue <\/strong><\/em>(1945)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Phil Rosen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0 <strong>George Callahan <\/strong>based on the character by<strong> Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong>\u00a0 Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong, Virginia Brissac, Robert Homans<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Leonard Mudie<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chan (Toler), aided by his valet Birmingham (Moreland) and his son Tommy (Fong) are working for the US Government tracking down spies trying to steal radar secrets.\u00a0 The trail leads to a radio station where one of the many suspects is murdered&#8230; with no visible cause for the death!\u00a0 As Charlie gets closer to solving the murder, the more at risk he, his son and Birmingham become!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Scarlet Clue\u00a0<\/em>features a murder that&#8217;s pretty shocking for a Charlie Chan film made in 1945.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter recreate two of their nightclub acts for the film. The more screen time a movie gives Mantan, the better the film will be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At one point Charlie, his son and Birmingham are learning about the dangers of some of the radio station equipment.\u00a0 In the scene it appears that Sidney Toler was actually shocked!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>The Scarlet Clue<\/em>\u00a0<\/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\/z030123zview_scarletclue2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scarlet Clue (1945) Director:\u00a0 Phil Rosen Writer:\u00a0 George Callahan based on the character by Earl Derr Biggers Stars:\u00a0 Sidney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/32050","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=32050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32051,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050\/revisions\/32051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}