In this Charlie Chan movie from Monogram, Sidney Toler is called into a radio station with a radar laboratory to investigate rumored theft of the scientific plans, when inexplicable murders begin to happen.
Benson Fong and Mantan Moreland are now Toler's assistants, and Moreland gets more screen time, including a couple of minutes with Ben Carter, in which they replicate one of their nightclub routines. Jack Norton is present playing a radio comedian, and he does a brief silent sketch in which he plays a drunk; it's not really the sort of thing they would do on the radio, but it's funny.
While it's good to see the Monogram series get out of isolated old dark houses, this one has many of the usual tropes, including a man walking around in a cape and a spooky mask. This one is best when it allows the comics to do funny things out of their repertoires.
Benson Fong and Mantan Moreland are now Toler's assistants, and Moreland gets more screen time, including a couple of minutes with Ben Carter, in which they replicate one of their nightclub routines. Jack Norton is present playing a radio comedian, and he does a brief silent sketch in which he plays a drunk; it's not really the sort of thing they would do on the radio, but it's funny.
While it's good to see the Monogram series get out of isolated old dark houses, this one has many of the usual tropes, including a man walking around in a cape and a spooky mask. This one is best when it allows the comics to do funny things out of their repertoires.