The Jade Mask (1945)
Actors:
Hardie Albright (actor),
John Breen (actor),
Al Bridge (actor),
Cyril Delevanti (actor),
Danny Desmond (actor),
Lester Dorr (actor),
Henry Hall (actor),
Jack Ingram (actor),
Ralph Lewis (actor),
Edwin Luke (actor),
Mantan Moreland (actor),
Frank Reicher (actor),
Sidney Toler (actor),
Joe Whitehead (actor),
Edith Evanson (actress),
Plot: Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to be murdered, Charlie Chan (with the uninvited help of No. 4 son) tries to answer such questions as Where's the body? How can a dead man walk? And how can a secret murder be done in full view of detectives and witnesses?
Keywords: accomplice, asian-detective, asian-stereotype, autopsy, black-stereotype, bookworm, butler, coroner, death-by-poison, death-trap
Genres:
Horror,
Mystery,
Sci-Fi,
Taglines: A MYSTERY MANSION...Where death lurks in every dark corner and a mad genius runs loose!
Quotes:
Charlie Chan: No barber shaves so close but another barber finds some work to do.::Sheriff Mack: Reckon what he says is what you might call a cutting remark.
Roth: If anyone knew where the formula was kept, I would, but I know nothing about it at all.::Charlie Chan: [to Sheriff Mack] To get information from him is like putting empty bucket into empty well.::Sheriff Mack: Yeah, he is kind of dried up.
Charlie Chan: My boy, if silence is golden, you are bankrupt.
Sheriff Mack: As my grandpa used to say: it's wonderful what doctors know. It's what they don't know that kill you.
Sheriff Mack: [to suspects] When it comes to talkin', you people just don't enter into the spirit of the thing!
Harper: Strange safety vault, eh, Roth? Both doors wide open to anyone finding that panel in the hall.::Roth: Like a spider's web, sir. Easy to get into; impossible to get out of.::Harper: [Sarcastically] And I'm the spider, huh?
Charlie Chan: Things misplaced sometimes furnish very good clues.
Charlie Chan: Murder know no law of relativity.
Eddie Chan: Now that I'm here, Pop, uh, what type of murder have we got and how soon do you wish me to produce the murderer?::Charlie Chan: Every time you open your mouth you put in more feet than centipede. Remain here and produce nothing but silence.
Eddie Chan: Gentlemen, in this matter of thought I'm sure that I can assist both of you.::Charlie Chan: [to others] He reach oversize decision with undersized brain.::Charlie Chan: [to Eddie] Relax!