“Dark Alibi” is a 1946 American film directed by Phil Karlson featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. In this movie Charlie Chan works with a public defender to clear a man wrongly convicted and scheduled for execution.
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Directed by Phil Karlson, produced by James S. Burkett, written by Earl Derr Biggers (characters) and George Callahan (writer), starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, Benson Fong as Tommy Chan, Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown, Teala Loring as June Harley, George Holmes as Hugh Kenzie, Ben Carter as Carter, Joyce Compton as Emily Evans, John Eldredge as Morgan, Russell Hicks as Warden Cameron, Tim Ryan as Foggy, Janet Shaw as Miss Petrie, Edward Earle as Thomas Harley, Ray Walker as Danvers, Milton Parsons as Johnson, Edna Holland as Mrs. Foss, Anthony Warde as Slade and George Eldredge as Brand.
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Number Two Son is NOT as good as Number One!
Never seen this Chan flick, but it is one of tje best. That last routine featuring CC with Birmingham Brown and brother Ben was awesome. Hollyweird just don't have the chops to make good flix no more
Great Chan joke, "You two sit down so much, you get concussion of brain."
they dont make movies like this anymore i watch all of them over and over again love mysteries but old mysteries
KMSL-around the 23:00 mark, Tommy and Birminham are holding hands while walking through the prison work area and the conversation that Birmingham had with his brother was as good as Abbott & Costello's "Who's on first?"!
Tommy, to Birmingham: "You don't even know what a lawsuit is!"
Birmingham: "Yes, I do! It's what a policeman wears!"
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Geez does there have to be an ad every 7 ding dong minutes..Holy Moly..
Charlie Chan is the man, thanks to those of you who have added these movies.
Birmingham and his brother Benjamin are the best thing about this movie. Their comic timing and flow is amazing, it's rare to see that level of skill in modern movies. Love this movie but those men are comic gold.
Hands up. I confess,
44:44 Find yourself someone you can have that kind of relationship with ❤
There's just something special about B&W movies ? this was more hilarious than mysterious ?
"I will sit in the car when you two enjoy nervous breakdown" he said. ?????
19:30 – 20:55 HILARIOUS!
Fingerprints in less than an hour? Bull s…. t
Favorite Chan–ism: 'Mind like parachute. Only works when open".
Toler was very ill when this was made and died not long after. What a great character he created, never equaled.
How all of the "potential suspects" IMMEDIATELY GO UP THE ROOF when Charlie points out what they COULD DO …
Movie is like beautiful bird who can no longer fly , still good to look at ?
the conversations between the two black men in the prison after the 19 minute mark onward is historic! Not so much for film history but as evidence of the intuitive component of black conversation. like…know what I mean… Whoever wrote that dialogue was a linguistic genius. "SAME DIFFERENCE" !!! love it.
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I can imagine paying 25 cents to go into a theater on a Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan and watching this with a 15 cent bag of popcorn and a 10 cent coke
Charlie Chan says "always sitting, I wish you would wear out your brain instead of seat of pants"
love it.
Seven days without fish makes one weak!
I just love these old Charlie Chan movies I grew up watching these is a kid in the 70sI found something out he was not really Chinese he was really a white man
it's my childhood all over again…
Charlie chan, is not very convincing as a chinese born detective and bogus pathetic accent, might just as well been w.c.fields!
Thank you for this movie, especially during these difficult times.
Pigeon English lol It's called pigeon talk not jive talk. I leaned that when I was a boy. I used to get pissed when movie would make fun of the way groups would make up their own languages pig Latin or pigeon or jive talk. Only a few of my old friends still talk fluently most people forgot because of not using as much anymore. shitthat bitchass holes antgot amotherfucking thingonthiss mofol