Acting
Mantan Moreland's Birmingham Brown—terrified, hilarious, iconic.
Direction
Phil Rosen crams three movies' worth of plot into 67 minutes.
Director
Phil Rosen
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Frances Chan
Frances Chan
Mantan Moreland
Birmingham Brown
Joseph Crehan
Police Sgt. Matthews
Ralph Peters
Officer Rafferty
Jacqueline deWit
Justine Bonner
Helen Beverly
Norma Duncan aka Nancy Wood
Harry Depp
Charles Edwards
Geraldine Wall
Harriet Green
Charles Jordan
Tom Starkey
Claudia Dell
Vera Starkey
Darby Jones
Johnson
Edward Earle
Dawson, Police Lab
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sidney Toler was the second actor to play Charlie Chan after Warner Oland's death; he wrote some of his own Chan films.
Mantan Moreland was one of Hollywood's highest-paid Black actors of the 1940s despite being typecast in cowardly comic relief roles he reportedly despised.
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