Dark Alibi 1946

THE MASTER OF MYSTERY EXPOSES A GENIUS OF CRIME!

6.2 / 10   19 vote(s)
NR
Mystery Crime Thriller

After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.

Release Date 1946-05-25
Runtime 1h 1m
Directors Phil Karlson, William A. Sickner, Theodore Joos, Joel Kronish
Producer James S. Burkett
Writers George Callahan, Earl Derr Biggers

Three ex-cons have been convicted of committing separate violent bank robberies and the last of them is on death row with only 9 days left to go. The local public defender has doubts about their convictions - largely on the basis of fingerprint evidence, so he enlists "Charlie Chan" to investigate. Mantan Moreland "Birmingham Brown" and Benson Fong "Tommy - No. 3 son - Chan" chip in well as our Oriental sleuth uses his fiendishly clever deductive mind to prove the fingerprints are a forgery and to reveal the true perpetrators. This is a fun, quick-moving little crime caper done on a pretty tight budget. If you like the genre, then this is one of the better stories.

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