Docks of New Orleans
- Original title
- Docks of New Orleans
- Year
- 1948
- Running time
- 64 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Scott Darling. Characters: Earl Derr Biggers
- Cast
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- 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
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- Music
- Cinematography
William A. Sickner (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery. Thriller. Comedy. Drama | Crime. B Movie. Remake
- Movie Groups
- Charlie Chan
- Synopsis
- 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...
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