{"id":32219,"date":"2023-03-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32219"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:11:40","slug":"the-jade-mask-1945-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32219","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Jade Mask&#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\/z031523zview_jademask.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"775\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Jade Mask <\/strong><\/em>(1945)<\/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>\u00a0based on characters created by <strong>Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke, Frank Reicher, Janet Warren, Cyril Delevanti, Edith Evanson <\/strong>and <strong>Edith Evanson<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> A MYSTERY MANSION&#8230;Where death lurks in every dark corner and a mad genius runs loose!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chan (Toler), aided by his #4 son Edwin and Birmingham Brown (Mooreland) are called in to solve a case where an eccentric scientist was killed in his spooky old mansion while hosting a dinner party.\u00a0 As it turns out the scientist wasn&#8217;t well liked.\u00a0 Everyone in attendance had motive to kill him!<\/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 Jade Mask<\/em> has all the elements you&#8217;d want in a Charlie Chan mystery.\u00a0 An unusual murder.\u00a0 Plenty of viable suspects.\u00a0 Charlie Chan&#8217;s humorous pearls of wisdom.\u00a0 A spooky mansion with hidden passageways and wall panels.\u00a0 Mantan Mooreland!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first and only appearance of Chan&#8217;s #4 son Edwin, played by Edwin Luke, the real-life younger brother of Keye Luke who played Chan&#8217;s #1 son in previous films.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the old country sheriff&#8217;s interactions with Chan provides humor.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Jade Mask <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.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\/z031523zview_jademask2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jade Mask (1945) Director:\u00a0 Phil Rosen Writer: George Callahan\u00a0based 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":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32219","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\/32219","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=32219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32316,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32219\/revisions\/32316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}