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Dark Alibi
1946·61 min·★ 6.3
MysteryCrimeThriller
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
Status
Released
Cast
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Mantan Moreland
Birmingham Brown
Ben Carter
Benjamin Brown
Benson Fong
Tommy Chan
Teala Loring
June Harley
George Holmes
Hugh Kenzie
Discussion
CinemaSerf★ 6/10
Three ex-cons have been convicted of committing separate violent bank robberies and the last of them is on death row with only 9 days left to go. The local public defender has doubts about their convictions - largely on the basis of fingerprint evidence, so he enlists "Charlie Chan" to investigate. Mantan Moreland "Birmingham Brown" and Benson Fong "Tommy - No. 3 son - Chan" chip in well as our Oriental sleuth uses his fiendishly clever deductive mind to prove the fingerprints are a forgery and to reveal the true perpetrators. This is a fun, quick-moving little crime caper done on a pretty tight budget. If you like the genre, then this is one of the better stories.
