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The Mandarin Mystery

  • 1936
  • Approved
  • 1h 6min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
5.3/10
485
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Charlotte Henry and Eddie Quillan in The Mandarin Mystery (1936)
Film NoirWhodunnitComedyCrimeMysteryRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaTwo murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, passed around and eventually recovered as a group of valuable stamp counterfeiters is uncovered, through the investi... Leer todoTwo murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, passed around and eventually recovered as a group of valuable stamp counterfeiters is uncovered, through the investigations of Ellery Queen.Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, passed around and eventually recovered as a group of valuable stamp counterfeiters is uncovered, through the investigations of Ellery Queen.

  • Dirección
    • Ralph Staub
  • Guionistas
    • Frederic Dannay
    • Manfred Lee
    • John Francis Larkin
  • Elenco
    • Eddie Quillan
    • Charlotte Henry
    • Rita La Roy
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    5.3/10
    485
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Ralph Staub
    • Guionistas
      • Frederic Dannay
      • Manfred Lee
      • John Francis Larkin
    • Elenco
      • Eddie Quillan
      • Charlotte Henry
      • Rita La Roy
    • 29Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 7Opiniones de los críticos
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
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  • Fotos

    Elenco principal25

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    Eddie Quillan
    Eddie Quillan
    • Ellery Queen
    Charlotte Henry
    Charlotte Henry
    • Josephine Temple
    Rita La Roy
    Rita La Roy
    • Martha Kirk
    Wade Boteler
    Wade Boteler
    • Inspector Queen
    Franklin Pangborn
    Franklin Pangborn
    • Mellish
    George Irving
    George Irving
    • Dr. Alexander Kirk
    Kay Hughes
    Kay Hughes
    • Irene Kirk
    William Newell
    William Newell
    • Detective Guffy
    George Walcott
    George Walcott
    • Donald Trent
    Edwin Stanley
    Edwin Stanley
    • Howard Bronson
    Edgar Allen
    • Newspaper Reporter
    Walter Merrill
    • Craig - the Thief
    • (as Anthony Merrill)
    Richard Beach
    • Newspaper Reporter
    Monte Vandergrift
    Monte Vandergrift
    • Police Detective
    • (as Monte Vandegrift)
    Grace Durkin
    Grace Durkin
    • Girl on Street Corner
    Mary Russell
    Mary Russell
    • Girl on Street Corner
    June Johnson
    June Johnson
    • Girl at Cocktail Bar
    Mary Bovard
    • Girl at Cocktail Bar
    • Dirección
      • Ralph Staub
    • Guionistas
      • Frederic Dannay
      • Manfred Lee
      • John Francis Larkin
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    4bkoganbing

    A smart aleck Queen

    The Mandarin Mystery is the second of two Ellery Queen films done by Columbia Pictures and it features Eddie Quillan as the amateur sleuth and son of a professional one. Instead of the shy bookish Ellery as realized best by Jim Hutton on a shortlived television series, we get a Smart Aleck punk who lives to show up the police department, especially Inspector Queen played here by Wade Boteler. No wonder fans of the series were up in arms.

    The Mandarin referred to here is a Chinese stamp which was a rare misprint edition because the Mandarin portrayed on the postage stamp had his clothes on backwards. Charlotte Henry is going to sell the stamp to collector George Irving, but the stamp is stolen and the thief killed.

    Unfortunately several minutes were eliminated from this film by YouTube so I had to piece it together in my mind. Not a bad story, but Quillan really kills this film.
    5churei

    Give me the 'real' Ellery!

    If one can simply forget the literary Ellery Queen, this is an OK murder mystery (locked room murder, etc. etc. ). the problem, for Ellery Queen fans is that the whole thing, on that basis, is WAY off the mark. Queen is an analytical detective, and his father and the Police are not dolts. The books are written with more twists and turns and excellence that most others on the mystery shelf (with the possible exceptions of S.S. Van Dyne (Philo Vance) and, of course, Agatha Christie.)Dropping the comparison, one must note the ridiculousness of some of the plot e.g. the whole world knows the value of the stamp - it even appears on the Times Square news bulletin - yet the girl carries the stamp in an envelope in her open pocketbook. Despite all of this, Quillan is a fun actor, definitely not Ellery but giving the film the spunk it desperately needs. Charlotte Henry does not have a 'clue' and thus cannot handle the idiocy of what her character says and does. Still, on a chilly night, with the rain on the window, and curled up on a comfortable chair, this passes the time quickly.
    7Boba_Fett1138

    Really entertaining murder mystery.

    What are people complaining about! This is a pretty decent movie for what it is. It's a very entertaining movie to watch, thanks to its fine good old fashioned style of humor.

    If this movie was made as a serious one it would had been a very bad movie. I mean, there is not really much to the story. There are too many characters (Atleast for an one hour movie.), which makes the story and the whole whodunit element of the movie quite confusing at times. The actual plot also just isn't that interesting and concentrates on the worlds most rare stamp, that appears to have been stolen.

    The movie is really being saved by its fun. The movie foremost is like a comedy, rather than really a mystery movie. The actors are all entertaining in their roles and some of them are obviously deliberately over-the-top. It makes "The Mandarin Mystery" a real pleasant and light movie to watch. You know, the sort of movie that is great to watch in between.

    Nothing too impressive, just some good old fashioned- and effective, simple entertainment.

    7/10

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    6django-1

    Eddie Quillan is charming as Ellery Queen, but the film does not resemble the source novel

    The literary work on which this film was based--THE Chinese ORANGE MYSTERY--is a locked-room murder mystery that is light on characterization but heavy on the puzzle aspect of the murder, where no one knows who the victim is, the victim's clothes have all been turned inside out, and everything in the murder room has been turned backward. To do a faithful film adaptation of the book would probably be difficult, especially for a 55-minute b-movie which needs to be fast-moving and witty. In the Ellery Queen film made the year before, THE Spanish CAPE MYSTERY, which was an OK film, the filmmakers basically streamlined the plot, but were unable to give much depth or interest to any of the characters (other than Ellery and Inspector Queen). THE MANDARIN MYSTERY takes elements of the book THE Chinese ORANGE MYSTERY--a rare stamp, a murder in a locked room, some of the character names--and basically creates a new story around them. I had just re-read the novel before seeing this film, but they have little in common. If you can forget the book and just treat the film as an entity of its own, it's not that bad. Eddie Quillan is a charming screen presence, and he tries to restrain his comic mugging somewhat, but the script does not allow him to show much analytical prowess, and he spends far more effort romantically chasing the girl who is the main suspect than he does working on the crime. Wade Boteler plays Inspector Queen well--professional, but with a warm heart--and he and Ellery do show glimpses of the rapport they have in the books (and in the Jim Hutton/David Wayne TV series). On the whole, though, this film is an average 30s murder mystery, played with a light touch by a charming comic actor, but it has little to do with either the novel on which it was supposedly based or with the Ellery Queen series in general.
    6Mike-764

    Ellery Stamps Out the Villains

    Josephine Temple arrives in New York with a rare stamp, the Chinese Mandarin, which she has arranged to sell to stamp collector, Dr. Alexander Kirk, for $50,000, which upsets his two nieces (Martha and Irene, as well as her fiancé Donald Trent) who don't like him spending their inheritance as an investment. Soon after she arrives, Josephine finds that the stamp has been stolen, and races up to Kirk's room. Soon after Josephine leaves the room, the real crook, Craig, is found murdered in the library adjoining Dr. Kirk's room. Inspector Queen goes up to solve the case, while son Ellery's interest is in Josephine (smart boy) which he seems to be protecting. Ellery finds out that many of the stamps in Dr. Kirk's collection are counterfeit and when he goes to Craig's apartment he discovers his counterfeiting tools, but not before he is knocked unconscious by Howard Bronson, another stamp collector, who expressed a high interest in the Mandarin. The stamp is later found on an envelope sent by Martha, but when she is confronted with the evidence, she is mysteriously killed. Who is the murder of Craig and Martha Kirk. A good B mystery from the 30's, but the injection of humor and Quillan's aw shucks persona, really kill the movie at several occasions. Much of the plot and characters are not fleshed out as deeply as a Charlie Chan or Philo Vance film and the ending is rushed with explanations that would bewilder any audience member. The plot is a standard B mystery with the usual clichés and twists, which does work. Rating, based on B mysteries, 6.

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    • Trivia
      Even though records show the film as 66 minutes long, copies that are available today are only 53 minutes long and have fade-outs throughout as though the movie were playing on commercial television. It's unclear what happened to the missing minutes, but the cuts were made by Republic Studios in 1952 when they sold their library to television syndication.
    • Errores
      No philatelist, not even in the 1930s, would treat a rare stamp the way the Chinese Mandarin was treated in this film. Touching the stamp with bare hands, keeping it loose in a folded up piece of paper, licking and posting a stamp, etc. While "hinges" (tiny bits of sticky paper) could be used by everyday collectors to attach a stamp to a book or display case in this era, elite collectors still would have been loathe to ruin a stamp so rare.
    • Citas

      Ellery Queen: [to Inspector Queen] Congradulations. You now have two suspects. Now all you need is one murderer.

    • Conexiones
      Edited into The Gay Rub: A Documentary (2018)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 23 de diciembre de 1936 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • The Black Spider: The Mandarin Mystery
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • Republic Pictures
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 6 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
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