Theodore's World

Thomas P. Manning, businessman and chess expert mysteriously shot in a locked room, dies clutching some chess pieces. Police are baffled, and finally abandon the case. Six months later, victim’s daughter Leah Manning, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the aid of Charlie Chan and Number 3 Son. Additional murders follow, leading to a climactic confrontation in a seemingly deserted “Fun House.”

Murder Over New York directed by Harry Lachman in 1940, starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Shemp Howard plays “Shorty McCoy” in an uncredited appearance.
On a flight to New York for an annual police convention, Chan encounters an old friend, Hugh Drake, now a member of military intelligence trying to track down a sabotage ringbehind the crash of a bomber and its pilots the day before, led by a Paul Narvo.

Former acting ICE director Tom Homan explains why he believes Vice President Harris is not suited to correct the crisis at the southern border.

A scientist working on a plan to protect Allied ships from German torpedoes throws a cocktail party and is mysteriously electrocuted during the gathering of supposed friends. Secret agent Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called in to conduct the investigation, assisted by his daughter, Iris (Marianne Quon), and son, Tommy (Benson Fong). As Chan investigates amid elaborate attempts on his own life, all of the party guests appear to be have dark secrets and motives for murder.

When three bank employees are killed with cobra venom, Detective Chan recalls an oddly similar case ten years earlier in Shanghai. Benson Fong and Mantan Moreland, return as Tommy “Number Three Son” Chan, and Birmingham Brown.