Product Description

The unforgettable Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) takes on a group of fast-track media types in this forties send-up of bad radio drama, snarling sponsors and tense thespians that also features Mantan Moreland and partner Ben Carter doing their classic nightclub routinea Chan movie first! A fatal mistake made by an impatient detective in Chan's employ leads the master sleuth to a radio studio that is somehow connected to a radar operation in the same building. A bloody heel print, lethalcigarettes and an icy wind tunnel all provide Charlie with clues to a dastardly scheme to steal top-secret radar plansbut these suspects are experts at deceit. After all, it's their business!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60569 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2004-07-06
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 65 minutes

Customer Reviews

Big Assist From Manton Moreland
THE SCARLET CLUE is an above average entry in the Chan series helped by a fast-paced script and the antics of Manton Moreland as Birmingham Brown.

Charlie is acting as a federal agent trying to solve a murder and at the same time prevent the theft of top secret radar plans. The title refers to a bloody footprint.

Sidney Toler has the role of Charlie and Benson Fong is back as Tommie Chan.

Serial-style Chan mystery offers some fun for B-movie fans.
One of budget-brand Monogram Pictures' entries in the Charlie Chan series, this picture has a busy, tricky screenplay which resembles a serial story. The villain is masked and cloaked in the best cliffhanger tradition, and every few minutes there is some new deadly device introduced (an elevator with a trap door, a weather tunnel with dangerous extremes of heat and cold, etc.). The radio-station setting is novel, and there is some outstanding comedy relief by Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter doing their "incomplete sentence" nightclub act. The direction and photography are routine, but the filmmakers apparently were concentrating on the ambitious technical gimmicks in the script. Par for Monogram, and a pleasant hour for B-movie fans.

A very enjoyable movie.
I am Chinese and have heard lots of western people refering to Charlie Chan. I was very curious how Chan was like and bought this DVD. I was not disappointed --- even though this movie was made so many years ago, it is still very entertaining.