City in Darkness
PARIS! BLACKOUT!...but there's no blackout for crime...and the great detective is commandeered!
1939 | 75m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Herbert I. Leeds |
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| Writer: | Robert Ellis, Helen Logan |
| Staring: |
| Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status.. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 15, 1939 |
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| Director: | Herbert I. Leeds |
| Writer: | Robert Ellis, Helen Logan |
| Genres: | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | paris, france, arms smuggling, espionage, murder, burglary, enemy agent, cheap hotel, forger, eve of world war ii, forged passport, burglars, comical sidekick, bumbling cop, fugitive suspect, gas masks, bistro |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Sidney Toler | Charlie Chan |
| Harold Huber | Police Inspector Marcel Spivak |
| Pedro de Cordoba | Antoine |
| Lynn Bari | Marie Dubon |
| Richard Clarke | Tony Madero |
| Dorothy Tree | Charlotte Ronnell |
| Noel Madison | Belescu |
| Leo G. Carroll | Louis Santelle |
| C. Henry Gordon | Prefect of Police J. Romaine |
| Louis Mercier | Gentleman Max |
| George Davis | Alex |
| Barbara Leonard | Lola |
| Douglass Dumbrille | B. Petroff (as Douglas Dumbrille) |
| Adrienne D'Ambricourt | Hotel Proprietress |
| Harry Fleischmann | Baptiste |
| Lon Chaney Jr. | Pierre |
| Eugene Borden | Gendarme |
| Frederick Vogeding | Captain |
| André Cheron | Man wearing a robe in the hallway |
| Ann Codee | Complainant at Police |
| Albert Conti | Travel Agency Manager |
| Gino Corrado | Proprietor of Wine Cellar |
| Jean De Briac | Puppeteer |
| Jean Del Val | French Cabby |
| Fred Farrell | Minor Role |
| Constant Franke | Officer |
| Arno Frey | Pilot |
| John George | Victor the Gypsy, gangland bistro patron (cameo extra) |
| Helen Giere | Minor Role |
| Paul Irving | Doctor |
| Jeanne Lafayette | French Girl |
| Michael Mark | Mechanic |
| Alphonse Martell | Gendarme |
| Alberto Morin | Clerk |
| Nita Pike | Telephone Operator |
| Albert Pollet | Cabby |
| Frank Puglia | Gendarme at Steamship Office |
| Joseph Romantini | Gendarme |
| Rolfe Sedan | Hotel Clerk |
| Tom Seidel | Phillip |
| Lester Sharpe | Market Man |
| George Sorel | Plainclothesman |
| Larry Steers | Man Leaving Paris |
| Jacques Vanaire | Gendarme |
| Veola Vonn | French Girl |
| Poppy Wilde | One of Petroff's Girlfriends |
| Marek Windheim | Cabby |
| Name | Job |
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| Robert Ellis | Writer |
| Herbert I. Leeds | Director |
| Virgil Miller | Director of Photography |
| Ladislas Fodor | Theatre Play |
| Helen Logan | Screenplay |
| Gina Kaus | Theatre Play |
| Earl Derr Biggers | Characters |
| Harry Reynolds | Editor |
| Lewis H. Creber | Art Direction |
| Richard Day | Art Direction |
| Thomas Little | Set Decoration |
| Herschel McCoy | Costume Design |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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