Docks of New Orleans
1948 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
The LaFontanne Chemical Company is shipping out a load of we're not sure what, disguised as something entirely different. Mr. Pereaux and Mr. Grock don't want that shipment to ever arrive anywhere, and they and a man named Aquirre mean to stop it at any cost. The ship's owner, Mr. Fontanne, smells a large rat and calls Chan in on the case, since the famous detective is in New Orleans because, well, because he felt like being in New Orleans, I guess. Chan gets what facts there are from LaFontanne, who is promply set upon by a gang who attempt to kidnap him, but fail. Mr. LaFontanne's partners come up with some insurance; just by chance they tell him, a partnership agreement (why they would have been running a company all this time without one is another large mystery which will not be solved) that bestows upon the living partners the portion owned by a deceased partner. Then the guy who invented the formula for the poison gas that the company is making but who was, in his opinion...
Direction Derwin Abrahams
Cast Roland Winters · Virginia Dale · Mantan Moreland · John Gallaudet · Victor Sen Yung · Carol Forman · Douglas Fowley · Harry Hayden · Howard Negley · Stanley Andrews · Emmett Vogan · Boyd Irwin · Rory Mallinson · George J. Lewis
Soundtrack Edward J. Kay
Screenplay Scott Darling · Earl Derr Biggers
Cinematography William A. Sickner
Original title Docks of New Orleans
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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