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The Scarlet Clue

USA 1945
produced by
James S. Burkett for Monogram
directed by Phil Rosen
starring Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong, Virginia Brissac, Robert Homans, Jack Norton, Janet Shaw, Helen Deverell, Victoria Faust, I.Stanford Jolley, Emmett Vogan, Milton Kibbee, Leonard Mudie, Crane Whitley, Charles Sherlock, Charles Wagenheim, Reid Kilpatrcik, Frank Mayo
written by George Callahan, based on characters by Earl Derr Biggers

Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), Charlie Chan at Monogram

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Rausch (Charles Wagenheim), a criminal trailed by Charlie Chan (Sydney Toler) for strying to steal radar secrets from the gouvernment , is killed, & the only clue he has leads Chan & his assistants, Number 3 Son Tommy (Benson Fong) & Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) to a radio station that is situated by pure chance (?) in the same building as professor Hamilton's (Emmett Vogan) radar research lab.

Soon, Chan has identified the killer as studio manager Brett (I.Stanford Jolley), but he works for an anonymous employer & is soon killed falling through remotecontrolled secret trapdoor installed in the radio station's elevator..

Soon more murders occur, all radio actors, all poisoned after smoking a cigarette ... but as they say, "the cigarettes are harmless" (you couldn't say that nowadays anymore). After thorough investigations Chan finds out that each of the microphones each of the now dead performers had last spoken into, had been containing a (now broken) capsule having contained a certain gas, that, in itself harmless, would turn into poison when mixed with cigarette smoke (talk about far-fetched). To no big surprise, Chan identifies all the radio station murders as an inside job, & rather to everyone's surprise (since she did not feature prominently during the proceedings at all), the ill-tempered station manager Mrs Marsh (Virgina Brissac) is identified as the criminal mastermind (& an enemy agent) behind it all & arrested.

Mantan Moreland's occasional (real-life) stage partner Ben Carter has a fun little cameo, doing one of his & Mantan's double talk routines they regularly did on stage ... incidently a routine that Mantan did with Frankie Darro (in blackface) in an earlier movie, Up in the Air - also a murder mystery set in a radio station.

 

As usual with Monogram's Charlie Chan-films, this one's not high on logic, with many of the gadgets/murderweapons/deductions more than a little far fetched, & in the end the culprit is once more pulled out of the hat ... but at the same time, the film moves at an ok pace, doesn't take itself too seriously, & especially Toler & Moreland do carry it over several inconsistencies with ease.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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