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Release Date:
23 December 1936 (USA) morePlot:
Legendary detective Ellery Queen sets out to solve a mystery involving an extremely valuable stamp. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Really entertaining murder mystery. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eddie Quillan | ... | Ellery Queen |
| Charlotte Henry | ... | Josephine Temple |
| Rita La Roy | ... | Martha Kirk |
| Wade Boteler | ... | Inspector Queen |
| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Mellish, the hotel manager |
 | George Irving | ... | Dr. Alexander Kirk |
| Kay Hughes | ... | Irene Kirk |
| William Newell | ... | Detective Guffy |
| George Walcott | ... | Donald Trent |
| Edwin Stanley | ... | Howard Bronson |
| Edgar Allen | ... | Detective |
| Bert Roach | ||
| Richard Beach | ... | Reporter |
| Monte Vandergrift | ... | Detective |
| Grace Durkin | ... | Girl on Street Corner |
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USA:66 min | USA:53 min (edited version)Country:
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USA:Approved (PCA #28??)MOVIEmeter: 
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What are people complaining about! This is a pretty decent movie for what it is. It's a very entertaining movie to watch, thanks to its fine good old fashioned style of humor.
If this movie was made as a serious one it would had been a very bad movie. I mean, there is not really much to the story. There are too many characters (Atleast for an one hour movie.), which makes the story and the whole whodunit element of the movie quite confusing at times. The actual plot also just isn't that interesting and concentrates on the worlds most rare stamp, that appears to have been stolen.
The movie is really being saved by its fun. The movie foremost is like a comedy, rather than really a mystery movie. The actors are all entertaining in their roles and some of them are obviously deliberately over-the-top. It makes "The Mandarin Mystery" a real pleasant and light movie to watch. You know, the sort of movie that is great to watch in between.
Nothing too impressive, just some good old fashioned- and effective, simple entertainment.
7/10