{"id":36524,"date":"2024-08-22T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36524"},"modified":"2024-08-22T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:03:20","slug":"shadows-over-chinatown-1946-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-jimmy-yung-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36524","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shadows Over Chinatown&#8221; (1946) starring Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland &amp; Jimmy Yung \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082224zview_shadowschinatown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shadows Over Chinatown<\/em> (1946)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Terry O. Morse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Raymond L. Schrock; <\/strong>based characters created by <strong>Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland<\/strong><strong>, Victor Sen Yung, John Gallaudet, Paul Bryar, Mary Gordon,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Mira McKinney<\/strong> and<strong> Franke Fontaine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Chan follows the trail of a blood-chilling wave of torso slayings!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chan (Toler) has been called to San Francisco to investigate a series of murders.\u00a0 On the way, someone takes a shot a him. Chan is not deterred, but even agrees to help a couple looking for a missing woman.\u00a0 They&#8217;re worried that she has become a victim of the serial killings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that Chan, his number two son, Jimmy (Yung) and faithful assistant Birmingham Brown (Moreland) are on the case, things are about to heat up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because Sidney Toler had terminal cancer, but wanted to continue the series, his character is often seated.\u00a0 Also Mantan Moreland and\u00a0 Victor Sen Yung were given more to do.<\/p>\n<p>Frankie Fontaine has an uncredited cameo doing his bit as a drunk.\u00a0 I recognized him from his appearances as Crazy Guggenheim on <em>The Jackie Gleason Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)<\/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\/z082224zview_shadowschinatown2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) Director: Terry O. 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