City in Darkness
PARIS! BLACKOUT!...but there's no blackout for crime...and the great detective is commandeered!
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Director Herbert I. Leeds
Cast
Eugene Borden
Gendarme
Ann Codee
Complainant at Police
Alphonse Martell
Gendarme
André Cheron
Man wearing a robe in the hallway
Michael Mark
Mechanic
Alberto Morin
Clerk
Rolfe Sedan
Hotel Clerk
Lester Sharpe
Market Man
Pedro de Cordoba
Antoine
Dorothy Tree
Charlotte Ronnell
Louis Mercier
Gentleman Max
Douglass Dumbrille
B. Petroff (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Richard Clarke
Tony Madero
Leo G. Carroll
Louis Santelle
Barbara Leonard
Lola
Albert Conti
Travel Agency Manager
Gino Corrado
Proprietor of Wine Cellar
Jean De Briac
Puppeteer
Frank Puglia
Gendarme at Steamship Office
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Lynn Bari
Marie Dubon
C. Henry Gordon
Prefect of Police J. Romaine
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Hotel Proprietress
Jean Del Val
French Cabby
Lon Chaney Jr.
Pierre
Frederick Vogeding
Captain
Tom Seidel
Phillip
Larry Steers
Man Leaving Paris
Veola Vonn
French Girl
John George
Victor the Gypsy, gangland bistro patron (cameo extra)
Poppy Wilde
One of Petroff's Girlfriends
Marek Windheim
Cabby
Harold Huber
Police Inspector Marcel Spivak
Noel Madison
Belescu
George Davis
Alex