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Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.
Dick Gordon
- William Bonner
- (as Richard Gordon)
Darby Jones
- Johnson
- (uncredited)
George Morrell
- Man at Elevator
- (uncredited)
Crane Whitley
- Bonner
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe title card on the DVD, which comes from the original negative, bears the original title, "Black Magic", but revisionists have superimposed "original title: 'Meeting at Midnight'" across the bottom of the screen. They've got it backwards. "Meeting at Midnight" was the new title attached to the film, about five years after its original release, in order to avoid confusion with Orson Welles' "Black Magic (1949)."
- GoofsWhen Charlie first declares himself psychic to Sgt. Matthews, we can see the pole held by a stagehand that makes a white handkerchief flutter over Charlie's head.
- Quotes
Police Sgt. Matthews: Charlie, about that bullet?
Charlie Chan: You can keep secret?
Police Sgt. Matthews: Of course!
Charlie Chan: So can I.
- ConnectionsEdited into Who Dunit Theater: Charlie Chan Black Magic (2021)
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A Seance....Again!
The newer films were filled with more silliness. Mantan Moreland became more and more a part of the series. While he was a very funny man, he really only played one note. In this one, a psychic is shot while performing a phony séance. Chan's daughter happens to be at the event and that's how Charlie ends up on the case. The police actually extort him into staying and solving the murder. Mantan, Birmingham Jones, and the daughter are the real investigators. There is a kind of hypnotic drug used and once again we must put aside our beliefs and accept this. Part of the fun is the chicanery that goes on behind the scenes as the credibility of the medium comes tumbling down. I have to admit that our detective has numerous close calls but seems to land on his feet. If you've seen the movie, you'll know how important this is in this film. About average as Chan movies go.
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- Jan 18, 2016
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- Meeting at Midnight
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- Budget
- $75,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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