The Chinese Ring (1947)
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.
- William Beaudine
- Kenneth Kessler
- William A. Calihan Jr.
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Scott Darling
Rating: 4.9/10 by 15 users
Alternative Title:
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Ring - US
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 08 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: chinese woman, murder, woman reporter, police detective, private detective, chinese american, poison dart, comical sidekick, charlie chan
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 which 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.
