{"id":32120,"date":"2023-03-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32120"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T03:07:54","slug":"charlie-chan-in-the-secret-service-1944-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32120","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Charlie Chan in the Secret Service&#8221; (1944) 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\/z031023zview_chansecretservice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"732\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Charlie Chan in the Secret Service <\/strong><\/em>(1944)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Phil Rosen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <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, Sarah Edwards, George J. Lewis, Benson Fong <\/strong>and <strong>Gene Roth<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> The screen&#8217;s most daring sleuth!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chan (Toler), now a government agent, is assigned to investigate the murder of a scientist working on a new type of weapon for the war effort.\u00a0 The scientist was killed by an unknown method right before a dinner party he was hosting.\u00a0 The house was filled with guests who are now suspects.\u00a0 Chan is assisted by his #3 son, his #2 daughter and\u00a0 a limo driver named Birmingham Brown (Moreland) Chan has just met.\u00a0 The security of the United States rests with Charlie Chan solving this murder!<\/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;\">This is the first Charlie Chan to feature Mantan Moreland!\u00a0 It is also the first Charlie Chan film made by Monogram Pictures.\u00a0 Monogram&#8217;s films featured a lower budget, but this often adds to the charm of their Charlie Chan movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Charlie Chan in the Secret Service <\/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\/z031023zview_chansecretservice2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) Director:\u00a0 Phil Rosen Writer: George Callahan based on characters created by Earl Derr<\/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":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/32120","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=32120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32121,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32120\/revisions\/32121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}