The Mandarin Mystery
1936 film by Ralph Staub
- December 23, 1936 (1936-12-23)
Running time
53 minutes (USA, edited version)
The Mandarin Mystery is a 1936 American mystery crime film directed by Ralph Staub, loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery, a novel featuring detective character Ellery Queen.
Plot summary
Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.
Cast
- Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, a mystery writer and amateur detective
- Charlotte Henry as Josephine Temple
- Rita La Roy as Martha Kirk
- Wade Boteler as Inspector Richard Queen, A police inspector, Ellery's father.
- Franklin Pangborn as Mellish, the hotel manager
- George Irving as Dr. Alexander Kirk
- Kay Hughes as Irene Kirk
- William Newell as Detective Guffy
- George Walcott as Donald Trent
- Edwin Stanley as Howard Bronson
- Edgar Allen as Detective
- Bert Roach
- Richard Beach as Reporter
- Monte Vandergrift as Detective
- Grace Durkin as Girl on Street Corner
- Mary Russell as Girl on Street Corner
- Mary Bovard as Girl At Cocktail Bar
- June Johnson as Girl At Cocktail Bar
Soundtrack
No soundtrack album was created
External links
- The Mandarin Mystery at IMDb
- The Mandarin Mystery is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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