{"id":36434,"date":"2024-08-17T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36434"},"modified":"2024-08-16T21:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T01:56:20","slug":"36434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36434","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Docks of New Orleans&#8221; (1948) starring Roland Winters, Virginia Dale &amp; Mantan Moreland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z081724zview_docksofny.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Docks of New Orleans<\/em> (1948)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Derwin Abrahams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>William Scott Darling <\/strong>based on Charlie Chan by<strong> Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Roland Winters, Virginia Dale, Mantan Moreland, John Gallaudet, Victor Sen Yung, Douglas Fowley, Stanley Andrews, Emmett Vogan <\/strong>and <strong>Rory Mallinson<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The owners of the LaFontaine Chemical Company are shipping out a boatload of a secret cargo.\u00a0 This is going to make them a, pardon the expression, a &#8220;boatload&#8221; of money.\u00a0 They decide to sign an agreement that if one (or more) of them were to die, the money would be spent by the survivors.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner done, then one of them is murdered.\u00a0 How this was done is a mystery.\u00a0 No signs of death and the victim was alone in a room that no one entered.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully Charlie Chan has been called in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mantan Mooreland gets more to do in this one.\u00a0 This includes Mooreland&#8217;s famous &#8220;Indefinite Talk&#8221; routine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Docks of New Orleans (1948)<\/strong> <\/em>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\/2024\/z081724zview_docksofny2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Docks of New Orleans (1948) Director: Derwin Abrahams Screenplay: William Scott Darling based on Charlie Chan by Earl Derr Biggers<\/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-36434","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\/36434","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=36434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36479,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36434\/revisions\/36479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}