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