Charlie Chan în Panama (1940)

Charlie Chan în Panama (1940) stele Sidney Toler ca Inspector Charlie Chan. În acest film, Inspector Chan este pe urmele spionul Riner. Riner intenționează să efectueze un act de sabotaj, în cazul în care flota americană trece prin canalul.

Inspector Chan experimentează o situație neobișnuită, when he is arrested for the death of an American agent in his hat shop. Inspector Chan is impersonating a merchant named Fu Yen. He assumes this identity to gain information from some of the local workers. When he arrives at the jail, he is reunited with his son Jimmy, jucat de Victor Sen Yung.

Although the United States had not entered World War II yet, the inference is that Riner is a German agent. In film, agents of both the United States and Britain are pursuing Riner. Some of the suspects are a night club singer, a canal engineer, a night club owner, biologist and tobacco salesman. The film also starred Kane Richmond, a familiar “”B” movie actor, and Lionell Atwill.

Kane Richmond was born Fred Bowditch on December 23, 1906 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Among other characters he played Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow. A rather burly individual, he normally played the leading man in “B” movies. He married actress Marion Burns. The marriage appeared to be a happy one as they remained married until his death at age 66 în martie 22,1972.

Filmul ruleaza despre 67 minutes and has somewhat of a surprising ending. Let me know what you think of the film.

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