Product Details

• Actors: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan (II), Joseph Crehan, Helen Beverly
• Directors: Phil Rosen
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: July 6, 2004
• Run Time: 65 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00020X86Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,124 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Charlie Chan in Meeting at Midnight" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Released in 1944 as Black Magic, this unusually absorbing (Los Angeles Times) mystery was celebrated on the revival circuit, making it one of the best-known films of the series! Filled with fun spiritualist gags, like levitating hankies and gamboling skeletons, Meeting at Midnight is a rendezvous you'll want to experience again and again! When Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) gets a job as a butler for the Bonner family, he doesn't know that they're con artists who specialize in trick sÃ(c)ances. But things get really spooky when a murder occurs and Charlie Chan's daughter Frances becomes a suspect! Charlie (Sidney Toler) surmises that nearly everybody has a motivebut even he doesn't yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Basic Chan, December 13, 2002

By 

Edward F. Lapinskas "Fast Eddie" (Dade City, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Charlie Chan: Meeting at Midnight [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you like the older genre mystery movies and are a "Chan Fan"
this is a must see. The off-spring are a little bit too cutsey
but that adds a little character to the film. Birmingham Brown is
a necessary element in the Chan series by injecting some humor.
As a parent who raised his kids on the 1930's & 1940's B / W mysteries this one is top family entertainment.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Chan Film, September 1, 2001

By 

Stephen I Taylor (Newtown, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Charlie Chan: Meeting at Midnight [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is definitely my favorite Chan film. Sidney Toler is the best of the Chans. It is an atmospheric film with some wonderful scenes. I love the seances and the scene where Toler is hypnotized and appears to be walking off a ledge is
as scary a scene as in any Chan movie.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the best movies I have ever seen!!, September 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Charlie Chan: Meeting at Midnight [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I don't care what anyone else says, this was one of the best movies I have ever seen. I don't really think it's relevent who the best actor or actress would have been, because this movie was made over fifty years ago. I don't see why more movies like this aren't produced, because you don't need adult content to sell a mystery!!