Thursday, May 5, 2011

Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)


Twentieth Century-Fox
Directed by Norman Foster
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Fox)

Toler starts warming up to the Chan role in this serviceable mystery. Chan is called to Reno to help solve a murder while Number Two Son Jimmy also arrives while on break from college. The hotel setting feels almost stage bound, rarely leaving the premises, though a foray to a ghost town is memorable. There are the usual array of suspects and clues, and the resolution is tough to guess ahead of time. Eddie Collins appears briefly as a cab driver for "comic relief".

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