Black Magic

August. 19,1944      NR
Rating:
6.3
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Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.

Sidney Toler as  Charlie Chan
Frances Chan as  Frances Chan
Mantan Moreland as  Birmingham Brown
Joseph Crehan as  Police Sgt. Matthews
Ralph Peters as  Officer Rafferty
Jacqueline deWit as  Justine Bonner
Helen Beverly as  Norma Duncan aka Nancy Wood
Geraldine Wall as  Harriet Green
Charles Jordan as  Tom Starkey
Claudia Dell as  Vera Starkey

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Reviews

Maidgethma
1944/08/19

Wonderfully offbeat film!

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Pacionsbo
1944/08/20

Absolutely Fantastic

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InformationRap
1944/08/21

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Aneesa Wardle
1944/08/22

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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