The Chinese Ring (1947)
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
- Date of release
- 1947-12-06
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime, Mystery
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Collection
- Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) Collection
Casting
- Roland Winters — Charlie Chan
- Warren Douglas — Sgt. Bill Davidson
- Louise Currie — Peggy Cartwright
- Mantan Moreland — Birmingham Brown
- Victor Sen Yung — Tommy Chan
- Philip Ahn — Captain Kong
- Thayer Roberts — Captain James J. Kelso
- Byron Foulger — Armstrong
- Jean Wong — Princess Mei Ling
- Spencer Chan — Cargo Officer
- Chabing — Lillie Mae Wong
- Lee Tung Foo — Armstrong's Majordomo
Interesting facts
- Based on: Charlie Chan
The Chinese Ring is a 1947 American mystery film directed by William Beaudine and starring Roland Winters, Louise Currie and Warren Douglas. It was produced and distributed by Monogram Pictures.
Background
The screenplay for The Chinese Ring was written by W. Scott Darling. The plot is nearly identical to Mr. Wong in Chinatown, the 1939 film starring Boris Karloff and released eight years earlier. That film was also an adaptation of Scott Darling's script for the 1931 film Murder at Midnight.
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