Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)

Directed by

Phil Rosen

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Charlie Chan investigates the murder of an inventor who was working on a secret weapon. With help from his son and a taxi driver, Chan uncovers a web of suspects in a wartime espionage plot.

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What happens

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. It is the first Chan film made by Monogram Pictures after the series was dropped by 20th Century-Fox, and it marks the introduction of Number Three Son (Benson Fong) and taxi driver (later Chan's chauffeur), Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.