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
Larry Steers
Man Leaving Paris
Frank Puglia
Gendarme at Steamship Office
Veola Vonn
French Girl
Marek Windheim
Cabby
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Lon Chaney Jr.
Pierre
John George
Victor the Gypsy, gangland bistro patron (cameo extra)
Poppy Wilde
One of Petroff's Girlfriends
Lynn Bari
Marie Dubon
Dorothy Tree
Charlotte Ronnell
Barbara Leonard
Lola
Lester Sharpe
Market Man
Richard Clarke
Tony Madero
C. Henry Gordon
Prefect of Police J. Romaine
Tom Seidel
Phillip
Harold Huber
Police Inspector Marcel Spivak
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Hotel Proprietress
Eugene Borden
Gendarme
Frederick Vogeding
Captain
Ann Codee
Complainant at Police
Albert Conti
Travel Agency Manager
Louis Mercier
Gentleman Max
George Davis
Alex
Jean De Briac
Puppeteer
Jean Del Val
French Cabby
Michael Mark
Mechanic
Pedro de Cordoba
Antoine
Douglass Dumbrille
B. Petroff (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Gino Corrado
Proprietor of Wine Cellar
Alphonse Martell
Gendarme
Noel Madison
Belescu
Leo G. Carroll
Louis Santelle
André Cheron
Man wearing a robe in the hallway
Alberto Morin
Clerk
Rolfe Sedan
Hotel Clerk