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All movies seen on 11/21/2018

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Murder Over New York (1940)

Directed by Harry Lachman

Mystery | Crime

Overview

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Rated NR | Length 65 minutes

Actors

Sidney Toler | Victor Sen Yung | Donald MacBride | Leyland Hodgson | Melville Cooper | John Sutton | Kane Richmond | Marjorie Weaver | Robert Lowery | Ricardo Cortez | Frederick Worlock | Joan Valerie | Shirley Warde | Catherine Craig | Clarence Muse | Stanley Blystone | Shemp Howard | Trevor Bardette | Eddy Chandler | Lal Chand Mehra | Jimmie Dundee | Frank Coghlan Jr. | Bud Geary | Alan Davis | Lee Phelps | Ralph Dunn | Frank Fanning | Carl Faulkner | Paul Palmer | Brick Sullivan | Paul Kruger | Charles Tannen | Bhogwan Singh | Kalu K. Sonkur | Nick Shaid | Jack 'Tiny' Lipson | Dorothy Dearing

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Tackling this so I can return the DVD set tomorrow.

Worth noting that I believe these serial murder mystery flicks (Charlie Chan, Dr. Wong, etc.) that were produced in the 1930s into the 1940s were the natural precursor to film noir, a la proto-noir. Haven’t read anything on this but it seems like the filmmakers watched these simple stories then amped the suspense, removed the humor aspects and introduced angular camera techniques and contrasts (German Impressionism) for more involved stories often with romantic elements that these serial stories don’t have.

Anyways just an observation from watch several film noir films for Noirvember then sliding in a few of these serial films into my viewing.

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