Charlie Chan in Meeting at Midnight (1944)

Description

Released in 1944 as 'Black Magic', this "unusually absorbing" (Los Angeles Times) mystery was celebrated on the revival circuit, making it one of the best-known films of the series! Filled with fun spiritualist gags, like levitating hankies and gamboling skeletons, 'Meeting at Midnight' is a rendezvous you'll want to experience again and again! When Birmingham (Mantan Moreland) gets a job as a butler for the Bonner family, he doesn't know that they're con-artists who specialize in trick séances. But things get really spooky when a murder occurs...and Charlie Chan's daughter Frances becomes a suspect! Charlie (Sidney Toler) surmises that nearly everybody has a motive - but even he doesn't yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!