Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1946)

Gevaarlijke Geld (1946) is de tweede aan Charlie Chan film met Sidney Toler van Monogram Pictures duren. Na de dood van Sidney Toler's, Roland Winters zou de rol voor negen meer films te nemen. Deze film laat ons toe om Toler uitbeelding van Inspecteur Chan voor bijna de laatste keer waarderen. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his twenty-first portrayal of the famous fictional character.

Gevaarlijke Geld begins on a cruise, where Inspector Chan is attempting to catch some counterfeiters. He is assisted by number two son Jimmy Chan, gespeeld door Victor Sen Yung, and Chattanooga Brown, played by Willie Best. Due to Sidney Toler’s bad health, Monogram brought Victor Sen Yung back to help Sidney Toler through the filming. Toler could barely walk in this film and The Trap (1947).

Inspector Chan deals with counterfeiters, blackmailers and murderers on the ship and the Isle of Samoa. Jimmy and Chattanooga provide comic relief and much of the actual action in this film.

Volgens de Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Willie Best appeared with many of the top film stars of the 1930s and 1940s until his drug arrest ended his film career. He made a brief comeback in television before retiring. Unlike Mantan Moreland and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, who transcended the stereotypical roles they were forced to play, Willie Best was not so fortunate.

The roles he was allowed to play pigeon-holed him as a porter, butler, and bellhop. During the Civil Rights Movement, film critics singled out his portrayals as what was wrong with African-Americans roles in classic Hollywood films. Tragisch, Best, who was born in Sunflower, Mississippi on May 27, 1915, died at the young age of 45 on February 27, 1962.

Deze film loopt over 66 notulen. It moves at a good pace and has enough mysteryious action to keep the viewer interested.

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