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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service poster
Directed by
Phil Rosen
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

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.

lightwhodunitpacedplayfulmysteriouslow-keyformulaicquaint

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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