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The Chinese Ring is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Beaudine released in USA on 6 december 1947 with Roland Winters
The Chinese Ring (1947)
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Add to a movie listThe Chinese Ring is a 1947 American film directed by William Beaudine.
The film is also known as Charlie Chan in the Chinese Ring (American poster title) and The Red Hornet. This is the first to feature Roland Winters as Charlie Chan. It is a remake of the 1939 Monogram Pictures film Mr. Wong in Chinatown with an identical story line and very little alterations of secondary characters.
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Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) is a private investigator living in San Francisco. One day a Chinese princess comes to visit him in his home. She has just arrived from the East by boat. The princess manages to give Chan’s butler Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) an artifact - an ancient heirloom ring - before she is shot an killed by a poisoned arrow through the window. She leaves a note behind, with the name ”Captain K”. Chan calls for the police to investigate this murder. Bill Davidson (Warren Douglas) with the SFPD comes to Chan, but his friend, the reporter Peggy Cartwright (Louise Currie), also arrives uninvited to the scene.Actors
Roland Winters
(Charlie Chan)
Warren Douglas
(Police Sgt. Bill Davidson)
Victor Sen Yung
(Tommy Chan (as Victor Sen Young))
Mantan Moreland
(Birmingham Brown)
Louise Currie
(Peggy Cartwright)
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