{"id":33093,"date":"2023-06-18T05:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33093"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:23:42","slug":"charlie-chan-in-black-magic-1944-starring-sidney-toler-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33093","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Chan in &#8220;Black Magic&#8221; (1944) starring Sidney Toler \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z061823zview_blackmagic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Black Magic <\/em>(1944)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Phil Rosen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>George Callahan\u00a0<\/strong>based on characters created by <strong>Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan <\/strong>and <strong>Frank Jaquet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Weirdest case of the screen&#8217;s top sleuth!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chan (Toler) is ready to head home to Honolulu when he gets called to investigate a murder that occurred during a seance attended by his daughter. The occultist was killed by a gun that cannot be found and a bullet that didn&#8217;t go through his body but also cannot be found!<\/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 only Charlie Chan film where he is assisted by his daughter instead of one of his sons.\u00a0 Also his daughter, Frances Chan is played by an actress named Frances Chan!<\/p>\n<p>Mantan Moreland is back to provide comedy relief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Charlie is asked a question about his investigation, Chan asks the man, &#8220;Can you keep a secret?&#8221;\u00a0 The man responds, &#8220;Of course.&#8221;\u00a0 Charlie says, &#8220;So can I&#8221; as he walks away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Black Magic <\/em>(1944)<\/strong> rates 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\/z061823zview_blackmagic2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Magic (1944) Director: Phil Rosen Screenplay: \u00a0George Callahan\u00a0based on characters created by Earl Derr Biggers Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan<\/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":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","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\/33093","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=33093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33122,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/revisions\/33122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}