City in Darkness
Crime
Thriller
Mystery
PARIS! BLACKOUT!...but there's no blackout for crime...and the great detective is commandeered!
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..
1939-11-15
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Cast
Director
Herbert I. Leeds
Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
Harold Huber as Police Inspector Marcel Spivak
Pedro de Cordoba as Antoine
Lynn Bari as Marie Dubon
Richard Clarke as Tony Madero
Dorothy Tree as Charlotte Ronnell
Noel Madison as Belescu
Leo G. Carroll as Louis Santelle
C. Henry Gordon as Prefect of Police J. Romaine
Louis Mercier as Gentleman Max
George Davis as Alex
Barbara Leonard as Lola
Douglass Dumbrille as B. Petroff (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Hotel Proprietress
Lon Chaney Jr. as Pierre
Eugene Borden as Gendarme
Frederick Vogeding as Captain
André Cheron as Man wearing a robe in the hallway
Ann Codee as Complainant at Police
Albert Conti as Travel Agency Manager
Gino Corrado as Proprietor of Wine Cellar
Jean De Briac as Puppeteer
Jean Del Val as French Cabby
John George as Victor the Gypsy, gangland bistro patron (cameo extra)
Michael Mark as Mechanic
Alphonse Martell as Gendarme
Alberto Morin as Clerk
Frank Puglia as Gendarme at Steamship Office
Rolfe Sedan as Hotel Clerk
Tom Seidel as Phillip
Lester Sharpe as Market Man
Larry Steers as Man Leaving Paris
Veola Vonn as French Girl
Poppy Wilde as One of Petroff's Girlfriends
Marek Windheim as Cabby