The Jade Mask with Sidney Toler: DVD Cover

    The Jade Mask
    a.k.a. Charlie Chan: The Jade Mask Director: Phil Rosen Cast: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke, Janet Warren

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    • DVD Release Date: 07/06/2004
    • Original Release: 1944
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 5,872

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Screen format: full-frame; English mono; English, French, and Spanish language subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Main Title/Stranger Outside [:08]
    2. The Gatekeeper [2:36]
    3. Only Charlie Can [7:51]
    4. "A Good Man" [2:46]
    5. Call to Order [:34]
    6. Frightening the Bell Boy [5:02]
    7. Number Four Son [1:01]
    8. House of Suspect [4:39]
    9. Nobody Did It [1:23]
    10. Mistaken Identities [4:00]
    11. "The Congregation" [3:55]
    12. Strange Inventions [4:17]
    13. The Night Watch [5:00]
    14. The Chamber [3:09]
    15. An Ear for an Ear [7:29]
    16. Unmasked/End Credits [3:02]

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    Editorial Reviews

    An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old House melodramatics and a generous dose of comedy. The venerable Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) is this time assigned by the government to establish the whereabouts of Harper (Frank Reicher), a scientist experimenting with a formula that may turn wood into solid steel. Harper, of course, turns up very much murdered and his strange house is virtually teeming with suspects. There is the dead man's Mrs. Danvers-like sister (Edith Evanson), a vaudeville strongwoman (short subject regular Dorothy Granger), the ubiquitous British-accented butler (Cyril Delevanti), and a mute garage mechanic (Lester Dorr). Several additional murders occur right under Chan's nose -- which nobody seems to particularly mind, least of all hayseed sheriff Al Bridge -- and corpses appear to be walking up and down staircases. Despite interference from manservant Birmingham Brown (the always welcome Mantan Moreland) and the inevitably dense Number Four Son (Edwin Luke), good old Charlie manages to catch the killer -- or killers -- within the allotted 66 minutes. Moreland and Luke, the real-life brother of Number One Son Keye Luke, perform their usual comedic asides, but the best lines are awarded to Preston Sturges stock-company regular Al Bridge as the plainspoken, homily spouting sheriff. Incidentally, although masks are indeed featured in The Jade Mask, none of them is made of jade. Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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    July 18, 2009: I'm an old Charlie Chan fan. I have watched since I was a little girl.

    They have done a wonderful job restoring the movie. I hope that I can fine more of them. I now have about 26.