Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944) on Netflix
Approved19441h 6mComedyCrimeMystery
Chess expert Thomas P. Manning is shot in a locked room and dies holding chess pieces. Six months later his daughter Leah Manning asks Charlie Chan to take up the case.
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Plot summary
Six months after Thomas P. Manning, a businessman and chess expert, is shot dead in a locked room and found with chess pieces in his hand, the police have abandoned the case. A rival criminologist then publishes Manning Murder Solved, a book naming the victim's widow as the killer, and Manning's daughter Leah Manning enlists Charlie Chan and his Number 3 Son, Tommy, to solve the murder before Chan leaves town in forty-eight hours. Manning's business partner confronts Mrs. Manning and demands that the inquiry be dropped. Chan works the case with Tommy and the taxi driver Birmingham Brown.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Chinese Cat is the entry in which Birmingham Brown stops being a passing taxi driver and is permanently hired as Charlie Chan's chauffeur, needing a new job after criminals blow up his taxicab with a bomb.
