Princess Mei Ling(Jean Wong)goes to the San Francisco apartment of Charlie Chan(Roland Winters). After she is led to the den by manservant Birmingham(Mantan Moreland), she is murdered via poison dart gun. She manages to leave a written clue on a note pad that leads to Captain Kong(Philip Ahn), whom she has made a million American dollar deal to ship airplanes to Chinese freedom fighters. But Kong is not the only Captain K involved in this deal. However, who would be better off that the princess is dead? Chan is aided by police Sergeant Davidson(Warren Douglas)in spite of the pest of a newspaper reporter Peggy Carpenter(Louise Currie), who wants the exclusive story of the murder of the princess. Not real fond of Winters playing the lead role. He is the palest Chinese/Hawaiian detective Chan ever. Also in the cast: Byron Foulger, Thayer Roberts and Cha Bing. And not understandable to Chan fans is that Victor Sen Young in this flick has changed his name from Jimmy to Tommy(who used to be #3 Son played by Benson Fong). Change is not easy to accept. But a Charlie Chan mystery seems always to be worthwhile.
Review of The Chinese Ring
