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Charlie Chan in Reno
USA 1939
produced by John Stone for 20th Century Fox
directed by Norman Foster
starring Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, Slim Summerville, Kane Richmond, Victor Sen Yung, Pauline Moore, Eddie Collins, Kay Linaker, Louise Henry, Robert Lowery, Charles D. Brown, Iris Wong, Morgan Conway, Hamilton MacFadden
screenplay by Frances Hyland, Robert E. Kent, Albert Ray, based on the story Death Makes a Decree by Philip Wylie and characters created by Earl Derr Biggers, music by Cyril J. Mockridge
Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), Charlie Chan at Fox
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Reno, divorce capital of the world: A woman (Louise Henry) is killed,
and the woman found leaning above her, Mary (Pauline Moore), is quickly
arrested for the murder, mainly because she also has a strong motive, the
dead woman has stolen her husband (Kane Richmond). But its exactly that
husband who calls Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) onto the scene because he's
convinced that Mary just couldn't have done it. Charlie Chan son finds
evidence that would suggest that Mary is really innocent, including the
fact that the murder weapon was not found on her, that there are traces of
acid in the room and so on. After much to and fro that involves several of
the hotel's guests, the hotel's owner (Kay Linaker) and hostess (Phyllis
Brooks) and the local doctor (Ricardo Cortez), as well as the deceased's
estranged husband (Morgan Conway), Chan comes to the conclusion that it
must have been the hstess who's the killer due to an affair years ago -
but then an attempt is made on her life, and Chan concludes the doctor is
involved in the whole affair as well, and he has both of them arrested. In
the end, Mary and her husband are allowed to reunite ... Victor Sen Yung
plays Charlie Chan's clumsy Number Two Son while Slim Summerville provides
some comic relief as a sheriff who can't make heads of tails of Charlie's
methods. Average Charlie Chan-mystery that plays
a bit like a soap opera and is thus sometimes hard to follow, but a
light-footed approch to the topic as such makes this one fun to watch
anyhow.
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