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Title: The Mandarin Mystery


Date: 1936
Type: Crime drama
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Ralph Staub
Producer:

Comment
A woman (Charlotte Henry) arrives in New York with the world's most valuable stamp and in her hotel room it is stolen and the theif is killed, so Ellery Queen (Eddie Quillan) is persuaded to help his policeman father (Wade Boteler) solve the crime. The plot is a variation on the locked room mystery. There is a good performance from Charlotte Henry as the woman at the centre of the plot and good support deom Rita La Roy and Kay Hughes as a pair of sisters. The weak part of the film is Eddie Quillan who is not convincing as Ellery Queen.

Actors

Eddie QuillanEddie Quillan
Charlotte HenryCharlotte Henry
Rita La RoyRita La Roy
Wade BotelerWade Boteler
Franklin PangbornFranklin Pangborn
Kay Hughes
Grace Durkin

Oscars

None
Production

Republic Pictures