List of the best Mantan Moreland movies: Lucky Ghost(1942), Dark Alibi(1946), The Jade Mask(1945), Meeting at Midnight(1944), Harlem on the Prairie(1937), The Scarlet Clue(1945), Up in the Air(1940), Law of the Jungle(1942), Freckles Comes Home(1942), Charlie Chan in the Secret Service(1944), The Chinese Cat(1944), The Chinese Ring(1947) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1942
60 Minutes
Washington
Mantan Moreland Flournoy E. Miller Florence O'Brien Maceo B. Sheffield Arthur Ray Jessie Brooks Monte Hawley Henry Hastings Florence Field John Lester Johnson Edward Thompson
Two gambling buddies (Mantan Moreland, F.E. Miller) win a casino that's haunted by the ghosts of the former owners.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1946
61 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mantan Moreland Ben Carter Benson Fong Russell Hicks Joyce Compton Edward Earle Teala Loring George Holmes Janet Shaw Edna Holland
A public defender enlists Charlie to exonerate one of his clients, an ex-con falsely accused of bank robbery and murder, scheduled for execution in nine days.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
69 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mantan Moreland Edwin Luke Hardie Albright Frank Reicher Janet Warren Cyril Delevanti Alan Bridge
scientist chauffeur detective family member son charlie chan cheeky suspenseful intricate mansion laboratory car vault missing persons investigation science murder plot assumed identity government secrets mystery
Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1944
67 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mantan Moreland Frances Chan Jacqueline de Wit Joseph Crehan Helen Beverley Geraldine Wall Ralph Peters Frank Jaquet Edward Earle Claudia Dell
charlie chan murder victim murder suspect wife daughter police detective campy lighthearted mansion police station investigation murder deception fraud mystery pursuit 1940s
Legendary Hawaiian detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called in to investigate when a man is shot during a mock seance at his home.
Comedy, Western
USA
1937
57 Minutes
Mistletoe
Herbert Jeffries Flournoy E. Miller Mantan Moreland Connie Harris Maceo B. Sheffield George Randol
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Birmingham Brown
Sidney Toler Benson Fong Mantan Moreland Helen Devereaux Robert Homans Virginia Brissac I. Stanford Jolley Reid Kilpatrick Jack Norton Charles Sherlock Janet Shaw
charlie chan radio star chauffeur police captain studio head spy gripping shocking tense new york city radio station laboratory street espionage radio performers murder investigation theft government secrets mystery
Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
62 Minutes
Jeff Jefferson
Frankie Darro Marjorie Reynolds Mantan Moreland Clyde Dilson
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1942
61 Minutes
Jefferson "Jeff" Jones
Arline Judge John "Dusty" King Mantan Moreland Martin Wilkins Arthur O'Connell C. Montague Shaw Guy Kingsford Victor Kendal Feodor Chaliapin Lawrence Criner
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
63 Minutes
Jeff
murderer student sheriff amusing engaging united states chicago murder gangs love friendship discovery love rivalry 1940s
Freckles (Johnny Downs) comes home from college...and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane (Gale Storm), falls in love with a confidence man.
Mystery & Thriller
1944
63 Minutes
Birmingham Brown
Sidney Toler Gwen Kenyon Mantan Moreland Arthur Loft Marianne Quon Lelah Tyler Benson Fong Gene Roth Eddy Chandler George J. Lewis Muni Seroff
charlie chan son daughter scientist housekeeper economist melodramatic patriotic crafty house party office murder investigation mysterious past world war ii secret service espionage family mystery discovery
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
65 Minutes
Birmingham Brown
Sidney Toler Benson Fong Joan Woodbury Mantan Moreland Weldon Heyburn Ian Keith Sam Flint Cyrus W. Kendall Anthony Warde John Davidson Betty Blythe
charlie chan daughter chess player fiancé son chauffeur playful spirited confident fun house hotel family home murder case family honor investigation deception father/son relationship chess mystery discovery
The Cisco Kid and Pancho hold up a stagecoach and kidnap Ellen Roth. They take the girl, who is wanted on a murder charge, to the mission where Padre Angelo will look after her. She tells ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
67 Minutes
Birmingham Brown
Roland Winters Warren Douglas Victor Sen Yung Mantan Moreland Philip Ahn Louise Currie Byron Foulger Thayer Roberts Jean Wong
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.
Musical, Crime, Drama
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Gloomy
Nina Mae McKinney Lawrence Criner Monte Hawley Mantan Moreland Reginald Fenderson Edward Thompson Vernon McCalla Charles Hawkins
Undercover anti-gang agent works in a nightclub where a protection racket is headquartered.
Horror
USA
1941
67 Minutes
Jefferson "Jeff" Jackson
Dick Purcell Joan Woodbury Henry Victor Mantan Moreland John Archer Patricia Stacey Guy Usher Marguerite Whitten Leigh Whipper Madame Sul-Te-Wan Lawrence Criner
passenger servant pilot mad scientist zombie niece creepy frightening engaging amusing airplane caribbean island mansion cellar plane crash zombies voodoo world war ii survival
On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
78 Minutes
Eustace Smith
Frank Graham Gale Storm Edgar Kennedy Mantan Moreland Richard Cromwell Gwen Kenyon Herbert Rawlinson Tristram Coffin
An amateur detective and a janitor try to find a kidnapped heiress.
Comedy
USA
1970
97 Minutes
Counterman
Godfrey Cambridge Estelle Parsons Howard Caine D'Urville Martin Mantan Moreland Kim Kimberly Kay E. Kuter Scott Garrett Erin Moran Irving Selbst Emil Sitka
insurance salesman bigot housewife police officer doctor secretary amusing confident shocking suburbia household town restaurant office doctor's office race relations hypocrisy cultural differences medical mystery persecution
An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand!
Romance
USA
1938
64 Minutes
Tilby
Lucille Ball Jimmy Ellison Lee Bowman Granville Bates Mantan Moreland Elliott Sullivan Murray Alper Robert Homans Dick Elliott Florence Lake Cyrus W. Kendall
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1943
61 Minutes
Jeff
John Carradine Robert Lowery Veda Ann Borg Gale Storm Mantan Moreland Mauritz Hugo Barry Macollum Bob Steele
brother private detective servant doctor secretary wife creepy spirited incredible louisiana family home laboratory dining room zombies scientific experiments nazism free will murder investigation pursuit
Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Red Cap 2
Betty Grable John Harvey Martha Raye Joe E. Brown Eugene Pallette Mantan Moreland
singer best friend war hero friend club owner entertainer playful spirited montana u.s.o. club train station new york city nightclub washington, d.c. deception impersonation performance war heroes friendship home front
A U.S.O. singer poses as a Broadway star in order to attract a handsome war hero.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1939
58 Minutes
Jefferson
Frankie Darro Dick Purcell Lillian Elliott Sheila Darcy James Flavin Denny Meadows Mantan Moreland
Buzzy O'Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother. Buzzy and... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
61 Minutes
Nicodemus
Dick Purcell Joan Woodbury John Hamilton Warren Hymer Kenneth Harlan J. Farrell MacDonald Mantan Moreland Gayne Whitman George J. Lewis
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1943
98 Minutes
First Idea Man
Ethel Waters Busby Berkeley Eddie Anderson Lena Horne Louis Armstrong Rex Ingram Kenneth Spencer John "Bubbles" Sublett Oscar Polk Mantan Moreland Willie Best
gambler wife sexy woman angel demon best friend amusing heartwarming playful bar church family home heaven purgatory gambling fidelity good deeds religion afterlife rivalry
A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Horror
1964
80 Minutes
Messenger
Lon Chaney Carol Ohmart Quinn Redeker Beverly Washburn Jill Banner Sid Haig Mary Mitchel Karl Schanzer Mantan Moreland
chauffeur child lawyer relative sister cousin eerie creepy frightening amusing mansion woods cellar dining room family home mental illness genetic abnormalities murder family disease
A servant (Lon Chaney Jr.) watches over family members who, by the age of 10, begin devolving into primitive, cannibalistic creatures.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Edward Arnold Ann Harding Donna Reed Allen Jenkins John Emery Stephen McNally Katherine Emery Reginald Denny Rosemary DeCamp Stanley Ridges Barry Nelson
blind person detective stepmother stepdaughter actor nazi suspenseful brooding new york city blindness investigation secret murder world war ii mystery pursuit 1940s
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
75 Minutes
Lloyd Nolan Mary Beth Hughes Sheila Ryan William Demarest Ben Carter Virginia Brissac Erwin Kalser Henry Daniell Dick Rich Milton Parsons Charles Arnt
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.
Comedy
1943
94 Minutes
Lana Turner Robert Young Walter Brennan Dame May Whitty Eugene Pallette Alan Mowbray Florence Bates Howard Freeman Millard Mitchell Ward Bond Adele Pearce
soda jerk boss millionaire nanny publisher coworker airy heartwarming amusing small town hotchkiss falls, n.y. drugstore new york city mansion new life misunderstanding deception wealth unlikely romance transformation
The former boss (Robert Young) of a small-town soda jerk (Lana Turner) finds her posing as an heiress in New York.