Cast: Mantan Moreland

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Mantan Moreland. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Eyes in the Night

1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Arnold · Ann Harding · Donna Reed · Stephen McNally

Plot Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year old step-daughter....

6.4

48 votes

6.4

48 votes

Cabin in the Sky

1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Busby Berkeley

Cast Ethel Waters · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Lena Horne · Louis Armstrong

Plot In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps...

6.1

130 votes

6.1

130 votes

Tarzan's New York Adventure

1942 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Next Time I Marry

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Lucille Ball · James Ellison · Lee Bowman · Granville Bates

Plot Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So...

5.7

21 votes

5.7

21 votes

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

1944 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Arthur Loft · Gwen Kenyon

Plot Charlie Chan is an agent of the U.S. government assigned to investigate the mysterious death of an inventor.

4.8

28 votes

4.8

28 votes

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

1942 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Patric Knowles · Lionel Atwill · Anne Gwynne · Samuel S. Hinds

Plot After five men previously acquitted of various criminal charges are murdered by a mysterious avenger known as Dr. Rx, police Inspector Hurd and Sergeant Sweeney ask private investigator Jerry Church...

4.7

21 votes

4.7

21 votes

King of the Zombies

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Dick Purcell · Joan Woodbury · Mantan Moreland · Henry Victor

Plot In World War II, during a storm, a small plane crashes in an island between Cuba and Porto Rico, but the pilot James 'Mac' McCarthy (Dick Purcell) and his two...

4.6

70 votes

4.6

70 votes

Revenge of the Zombies

1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast John Carradine · Robert Lowery · Gale Storm · Veda Ann Borg

Plot Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law...

4.4

45 votes

4.4

45 votes

World Premiere

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast John Barrymore · Frances Farmer · Eugene Pallette · Virginia Dale

Plot A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic.

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It Comes Up Love

1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Gloria Jean · Ian Hunter · Donald O´Connor · Frieda Inescort

Plot A couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O’Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

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The Biscuit Eater

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Vincent McEveety

Cast Earl Holliman · Pat Crowley · Lew Ayres · Godfrey Cambridge

Plot In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train...

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Chip Off the Old Block

1944 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Donald O´Connor · Peggy Ryan · Ann Blyth · Helen Vinson

Plot The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

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The Chinese Ring (Charlie Chan in the Chinese Ring)

1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Roland Winters · Warren Douglas · Mantan Moreland · Louise Currie

Plot Princess Mei Ling pays a visit to the Chan residence, where upon being admitted by man-of-all-work Birmingham Brown she refuses to give her name, but hands Birmingham her ring to...

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Black Magic

1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Frances Chan · Joseph Crehan

Plot Because Charlie Chan plans to return to Honolulu, he no longer needs the services of Birmingham, who gets a job as butler for William and Justine Bonner, two apparently phony...

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Not rated

Up in the Air

1940 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

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The Shanghai Cobra

1945 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Benson Fong · James Cardwell

Plot When three employees of a bank are found murdered with cobra venom, Charlie Chan connects the homicides to a case he had worked in Shanghai in 1937. Even though he...

Not rated

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Shadows Over Chinatown

1946 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Terry O. Morse

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Victor Sen Yung · Tanis Chandler

Plot Chinese detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is on his way to San Francisco to take over a murder case when he meets a woman, Mrs. Conover (Mary Gordon), who is...

Not rated

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Laughing at Danger

1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

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Watermelon Man

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

Cast Godfrey Cambridge · Estelle Parsons · Howard Caine · D'Urville Martin

Plot Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people...

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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Anna May Wong

Plot Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to...

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