Sidney Toler

In 1940’s San Francisco, detective Charlie Chan, his son and his trusty driver investigate murders connected with an insurance racket in Chinatown.

Charlie, with help from his sidekick son and chauffeur, has just nine days to prove the innocence of an ex-con framed for bank robbery and murder.

In this classic film, Charlie Chan investigates the theft of government radar papers (the laboratory is located in the same building as a radio station!) with the help of Number Three Son Tommy and comic sidekick Birmingham Brown.

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) investigates.

When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario & press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number 2 Son, Jimmy played by Victor Sen Yung, & comic chauffeur/butler, Birmingham Brown played by Mantan Moreland. Kirk Alyn who is also featured in the cast as Police Sgt. Reynolds, soon went on to portray Superman in 2 movie serials.

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life. To help solve the crime, Sidney Toler as "Charlie Chan" is assisted by his son, Victor Sen Yung as "Jimmy Chan" and comic sidekick, Willie Best as "Chattanooga Brown", Chan's chauffeur/butler.

Unbeknownst to his daughter, Outlaw Pecos Bill works undercover at the Bellhounds ranch, seeking justice for his partner's death and stolen land.

Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a herd of cattle, but bad guy Ralph Merritt will stop at nothing to get in their way.

Two treasure hunters looking for a sunken cargo of $3-million in gold let the seductive owner of an island brothel in on their deal.

The wife of a French diplomat, forcibly separated from her young son, will meet him again in 20 years as his client when she stands trial for murder.

After going on the run, three thieves return to the town of their latest crime to bring a baby out of the desert to safety.

When an engaged woman falls in love with a wounded man that her family is caring for, she flees her wedding and finds herself held hostage by outlaws.

This polished, fast-moving, complex story with solid production values was an artistic, box office and critical success. Though it was a meaningless concession to salve his bouts of temperament, this was the first of two films nominally credited as “A Stan Laurel Production. ” In fact, it was just business, and business as usual. During principal photography, Roach wrote his son, then away at military school, of making “a very funny Laurel & Hardy picture. Had the Laurels over for dinner…borrowed his fishing boat last weekend and went to Coronado for yellowtail. ” The lavish shooting required 48 days. The cast included Alan Hale and Sidney Toler, soon to become the next “Charlie Chan” at Fox, and effervescent Betty Healy, former wife of Ted Healy of Three Stooges fame. This was her only movie; she played Mrs. Laurel, and remained his lifelong friend, as so many surviving letters now attest. Also featuring an intricate and lively musical score by Roy Shield, which the studio used as “stock tunes” to score concurrent Charley Chase and Our Gang comedies, as well as the reissues of five Laurel & Hardy shorts. Directed by Harry Lachman, a visual stylist and neighbor of Roach who was brought in to help the studio graduate from the custard pie era. With Daphne Pollard, James Finlayson, Iris Adrian, and Lona Andre, who said in 1990 she had never seen the film! Looking at a still photo, she remembered, “This one (Hardy) was always doing something that made the other one (Laurel) laugh; and I mean he would roar!”

A hardy young man, his pal and a girl are stranded in the Yukon and join forces to locate a rich gold claim in the Arctic wastelands.

A dress designer tries to break her sister's engagement to a free-living artist, only to discover the man is falling for her instead.

Bookish without much in the way of street smarts, a professor believes he’s become the heir to a fortune and throws it away on a bad Broadway show.