''Dangerous Money'', also known as ''Hot Money'', is a 1946 American film directed by
Terry O. Morse, featuring
Sidney Toler
Sidney Toler (born Hooper G. Toler Jr., April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. The second non-Asian actor to play the role of Charlie Chan on screen, he is best remembered for his portrayal ...
as
Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu Police Department, Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang Apana. The benevolent and heroic Chan ...
.
This is the second and last appearance of
Willie Best
William Best (May 27, 1916 – February 27, 1962), known professionally as Willie Best or Sleep 'n' Eat, was an American television and film actor.
Best was one of the first African American film actors and comedians to become well known ...
as Chattanooga Brown, the cousin of Charlie Chan's usual chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (
Mantan Moreland
Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. He starred in numerous films. His daughter Marcella Moreland appeared as a child actor in several films.
Ear ...
).
Plot
Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific,
US Treasury
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The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and ...
agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help; two attempts have been made on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). The captain asks Chan to complete the dead man's mission and find out who is responsible for the recent surfacing of counterfeit dollars and stolen art. Chan declines, citing urgent business in Australia, but sets out to find the murderer.
Cast
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Sidney Toler
Sidney Toler (born Hooper G. Toler Jr., April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. The second non-Asian actor to play the role of Charlie Chan on screen, he is best remembered for his portrayal ...
as Charlie Chan
*
Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung (born Victor Cheung Young or Sen Yew Cheung; ; October 18, 1915 – body discovered November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the western seri ...
as Jimmy Chan (Number 2 son)
*
Joseph Crehan
Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in ''Union Paci ...
as Captain Black
*
Willie Best
William Best (May 27, 1916 – February 27, 1962), known professionally as Willie Best or Sleep 'n' Eat, was an American television and film actor.
Best was one of the first African American film actors and comedians to become well known ...
as Chattanooga Brown
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John Harmon as Freddie Kirk
*
Bruce Edwards as Harold Mayfair
*
Dick Elliott
Richard Damon Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death.
Early years
Elliott was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Career
Elliott p ...
as P.T. Burke
* Joseph Allen as George Brace, the Purser
*
Gloria Warren as Rona Simmonds, an English tourist with a crush on the purser George Brace
*
Rick Vallin
Rick Vallin (born Eric Efron; September 24, 1919 – August 31, 1977) was an actor who appeared in more than 150 films between 1938 and 1966.
Early years
Born in Feodosia, in the Crimea, Russia, Vallin came to the United States at age three w ...
as Tao Erickson
* Amira Moustafa as Laura Erickson, Tao's wife
*
Tristram Coffin as Scott Pearson
*
Selmer Jackson
Selmer Adolf Jackson (May 7, 1888 – March 30, 1971) was an American stage film and television actor. He appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963. His name was sometimes spelled Selmar Jackson.
Jackson was born in Lake Mills, Iowa
...
as Ship's Doctor
*
Dudley Dickerson as Big Ben
* Rito Punay as Pete the Steward
*
Emmett Vogan
Charles Emmett Vogan (September 27, 1893 – October 6, 1969) was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934 to 1954, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time.
In 1913, Vogan ...
as Professor Martin
* Elaine Lange as Cynthia Martin, the professor's wife
* Leslie Denison as missionary, Reverend Whipple (alias for Theodore M. Lane)
* Alan Douglas as Joe Murdock, man posing as Mrs. Whipple
Production
The film entered the
public domain
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due to the omission of a valid
copyright
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notice on its original prints.
Notes
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