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Shadows Over Chinatown is a american film of genre Thriller released in USA on 27 june 1946 with Sidney Toler
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
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Add to a movie listShadows Over Chinatown (1946) is the second to last film featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.
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Chan investigates a murder for profit racket in San Francisco. Toller was in poor health during the filming of this, and so much of the film is carried by the comedic interplay between #2 Son (Victor Sen Yung) and chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland).Actors
Sidney Toler
(Charlie Chan)
Victor Sen Yung
(Jimmy Chan)
Mantan Moreland
(Birmingham Brown)
Al Bridge
(Captain Allen)
John Gallaudet
(Craig Winfield)
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