The Chinese Ring

The Chinese Ring

6/12/1947 1h 8m 4.9/10

Overview

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.

Director

William Beaudine

Top Billed Cast

Victor Sen Yung

Victor Sen Yung

Tommy Chan

Philip Ahn

Philip Ahn

Captain Kong

Warren Douglas

Warren Douglas

Sgt. Bill Davidson

Mantan Moreland

Mantan Moreland

Birmingham Brown

Roland Winters

Roland Winters

Charlie Chan

Louise Currie

Louise Currie

Peggy Cartwright

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/7/2022

5/10

Quite a routine little outing for Roland Winters as he has to investigate the death of a Chinese lady - in his own house, would you believe - by way of a sinister poisoned dart! It transpires that the woman was really a Princess sent by her government to buy some aircraft with one million dollars which has now gone missing... Aided by No.3 son "Tommy" and the inimitable Mantan Moreland as "Birmingham Brown" he embarks on his perilous quest to discover who killed her, and what happened to the cash! It moves along quickly, but Winters is no Sydney Toler and his performance is nowhere near as engaging; his Confucian OSV syntax is much more contrived and though it's still a fun way to kill an hour, I think the end of now definitely nigh for this character.

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