Mantan Moreland

Biography:  Mantan Moreland

Mantan Moreland

Appropriately nicknamed "Google Eyes" by his childhood friends, African-American actor Mantan Moreland joined a carnival at 14 and a medicine show a year later - and both times was dragged home by juvenile authorities. Most of Moreland's early adult... more

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  • The Golden Eye (1948)

    Cast: Roland Winters   

    Tags: Detective Film Mystery 

    Length: 69min

    The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold, bringing out the worst characteristics of several people involved. When murder enters the picture, Charlie Chan interrupts his...

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  • Rockin' the Blues (1955)

    Cast: Mantan Moreland   

    Tags: Rock Musical 

    Length: 66min

    Rockin' the Blues was one of the last films to be specifically aimed at all-black theatres in segregated communities. Little more than a filmed revue, the story has something to do with a camp show staged for black GIs by New York deejay Hal Jackson....

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  • The Scarlet Clue (1945)

    Cast: Sidney Toler   

    Tags: Detective Film Mystery 

    Length: 65min

    More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that, rather fortuitously, is located in the same building as a government research lab. It's wartime, and the Chinese master detective...

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  • Shadows over Chinatown (1946)

    Tags: Mystery Crime 

    Length: 61min

    Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over Chinatown. This time out, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) and his erstwhile assistants, son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) and chauffeur...

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  • The Shanghai Chest (1948)

    Tags: Mystery 

    Length: 56min

    Even after three appearances as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan, Roland Winters showed no interest in taking the role seriously. Shanghai Chest finds Charlie in the employ of the U.S. government, assigned to solve a series of puzzling murders. The...

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