The Chinese Ring
1947 | 68m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | William Beaudine |
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| Writer: | Scott Darling |
| Staring: |
| Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 06, 1947 |
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| Director: | William Beaudine |
| Writer: | Scott Darling |
| Genres: | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | chinese woman, murder, woman reporter, police detective, private detective, chinese american, poison dart, comical sidekick |
| Production Companies | Monogram Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Roland Winters | Charlie Chan |
| Warren Douglas | Sgt. Bill Davidson |
| Louise Currie | Peggy Cartwright |
| Mantan Moreland | Birmingham Brown |
| Victor Sen Yung | Tommy Chan |
| Philip Ahn | Captain Kong |
| Thayer Roberts | Captain James J. Kelso |
| Byron Foulger | Armstrong |
| Jean Wong | Princess Mei Ling |
| Spencer Chan | Cargo Officer |
| Chabing | Lillie Mae Wong |
| Lee Tung Foo | Armstrong's Majordomo |
| Jack Mower | Police Guard at Apartment 26 |
| Charmienne Harker | Kelso's Secretary |
| Paul Bryar | Desk Sergeant |
| Thornton Edwards | Hotel Desk Clerk |
| Dimples Cooper | Lillie Mae Wong |
| George Spaulding | Dr. Hickey |
| Mary Chan | Pedestrian (uncredited) |
| Thayer Cheek | Chinese Boy (uncredited) |
| Kenneth Chuck | Chinese Boy (uncredited) |
| Tom Coleman | Detective (uncredited) |
| Lee Tong Foo | Armstrong's Butler (uncredited) |
| Charmienne Harker | Kelso's Stenographer (uncredited) |
| Joseph C. Narcisse | Dock Worker (uncredited) |
| Cap Somers | Dock Worker (uncredited) |
| Richard Wang | Hamishin (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| William Beaudine | Director |
| Earl Derr Biggers | Characters |
| Scott Darling | Screenplay |
| William A. Sickner | Director of Photography |
| Richard V. Heermance | Editor |
| Ace Herman | Editor |
| Dave Milton | Art Direction |
| Raymond Boltz Jr. | Set Decoration |
| Kenneth Kessler | Assistant Director |
| William A. Calihan Jr. | Assistant Director |
| Harry Lewis | Grip |
| Lela Chambers | Hairstylist |
| Lloyd Garnell | Gaffer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| James S. Burkett | Producer |
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Popularity History
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Trending Position
Quite a routine little outing for Roland Winters as he has to investigate the death of a Chinese lady - in his own house, would you believe - by way of a sinister poisoned dart! It transpires that the woman was really a Princess sent by her government to buy some aircraft with one million dollars wh ... ich has now gone missing... Aided by No.3 son "Tommy" and the inimitable Mantan Moreland as "Birmingham Brown" he embarks on his perilous quest to discover who killed her, and what happened to the cash! It moves along quickly, but Winters is no Sydney Toler and his performance is nowhere near as engaging; his Confucian OSV syntax is much more contrived and though it's still a fun way to kill an hour, I think the end of now definitely nigh for this character.