Sidney Toler – MRQE

The Call of the Wild

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan — who spent time in jail for opening someone else’s letter with a map of where gold is to be found — Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

Spitfire

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.

Dead Men Tell

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers – and a second murder.

Charlie Chan in City in Darkness

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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..

King of the Jungle

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.

The Trap

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.

Black Magic

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.

The Longest Night

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store’s new owner.

A Night to Remember

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

Dangerous Money

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.