Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1946)

Dangerous Money (1946) is the second to last Charlie Chan film starring Sidney Toler from Monogram Pictures. After Sidney Toler’s death, Roland Winters would take over the role for nine more films. This film allows us to appreciate Toler’s portrayal of Inspector Chan for close to the last time. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his twenty-first portrayal of the famous fictional character.

Dangerous Money begins on a cruise, where Inspector Chan is attempting to catch some counterfeiters. He is assisted by number two son Jimmy Chan, spelad av Victor Sen Yung, och 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).

Inspektör Chan tar itu med förfalskare, utpressare och mördare på fartyget och Isle of Samoa. Jimmy och Chattanooga ger komisk lättnad och mycket av den faktiska handlingen i den här filmen.

Enligt 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.

De roller han fick spela gjorde honom som portier, butler, och piccolo. During the Civil Rights Movement, filmkritiker pekade ut hans skildringar som vad som var fel med afroamerikaner roller i klassiska Hollywood-filmer. Tragiskt, Best, who was born in Sunflower, Mississippi on May 27, 1915, died at the young age of 45 on February 27, 1962.

This film runs about 66 minuter. Den rör sig i bra takt och har tillräckligt med mystisk action för att hålla tittaren intresserad.

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