Black Magic
Chan stalks a fiendish murderer!
1944 | 67m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Phil Rosen |
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| Writer: | George Callahan |
| Staring: |
| Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 19, 1944 |
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| Director: | Phil Rosen |
| Writer: | George Callahan |
| Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
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| Production Companies | Monogram Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $75,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Frank Jaquet | Paul Hamlin |
| Geraldine Wall | Harriet Green |
| Charles Jordan | Tom Starkey |
| Claudia Dell | Vera Starkey |
| Dick Gordon | William Bonner (as Richard Gordon) |
| Darby Jones | Johnson |
| Edward Earle | Dawson, Police Lab |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Phil Rosen | Director |
| Max M. Hutchinson | Sound |
| Earl Derr Biggers | Characters |
| George Callahan | Screenplay |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Trending Position
Now then, this one really struggles to get going. This time it's daughter "Frances" (Frances Chan) who helps "Pop" investigate some odd activity at the home of the new employers of "Birmingham Brown" (Mantan Moreland), who has been released by "Charlie" - who just wants to get back to Honolulu. When ... hypnotism causes one woman to take a step too far; the race is on to thwart the mysterious, evil, perpetrator before anyone else comes a cropper. Moreland tries too hard, his daftness is too contrived and strained, and though he could be annoying from time to time, it misses "Jimmy" too. The psychic/occult theme has provided well for these films, but maybe this one tries to squeeze just a little too much from an already well exhausted fruit (might that be a "Charlie-ism"?) and i found it quite a long watch. It has it's moments of suspense, though, it's not terrible - it's just lacking certain important ingredients.