Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) Collection

Roland Winters

Warren Douglas

Louise Currie

Mantan Moreland

Victor Sen Yung

Philip Ahn

Thayer Roberts

Byron Foulger

Jean Wong

Spencer Chan

Chabing

Lee Tung Foo

Jack Mower

Charmienne Harker

Paul Bryar

Thornton Edwards

Dimples Cooper

George Spaulding

Mary Chan

Thayer Cheek

Kenneth Chuck

Tom Coleman

Lee Tong Foo

Joseph C. Narcisse

Cap Somers

Richard Wang

William Beaudine

Earl Derr Biggers

Scott Darling

Richard V. Heermance

Ace Herman

Raymond Boltz Jr.

Kenneth Kessler

James S. Burkett

William A. Calihan Jr.

Dave Milton

William A. Sickner

Lela Chambers

Harry Lewis

Lloyd Garnell

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

The Chinese Ring

Monogram Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Quite a routine little outing for Roland Winters as he has to investigate the death of a Chinese lady - in his own house, would you believe - by way of a sinister poisoned dart! It transpires that the woman was really a Princess sent by her government to buy some aircraft with one million dollars which has now gone missing... Aided by No.3 son "Tommy" and the inimitable Mantan Moreland as "Birmingham Brown" he embarks on his perilous quest to discover who killed her, and what happened to the cash! It moves along quickly, but Winters is no Sydney Toler and his performance is nowhere near as engaging; his Confucian OSV syntax is much more contrived and though it's still a fun way to kill an hour, I think the end of now definitely nigh for this character.

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