Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released December 13, 1940
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
20th Century-Fox
65 min. (Feature Film)
65 min. (Feature Film)
Charlie Chan meets an old friend, Inspector Hugh Drake of Scotland Yard, while they are both on a flight to New York for a police convention. Drake is on the trail of Paul Narvo, suspected mastermind behind the sabotage of Allied planes. Narvo's ex-wife is in New York, and hopefully she can lead authorities to her husband. When Drake is killed, Charlie interrupts his vacation to help with the investigation.
Shemp has a small part as a con man posing as a Hindu fakir during a police lineup.
Avg. Rating: 
[9.00/10]
[9.00/10]
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan, # 2 son
Donald MacBride
Inspector Vance
Marjorie Weaver
Patricia Shaw
Robert Lowery
David Elliot
Ricardo Cortez
George Kirby
Melville Cooper
Herbert Fenton
Shirley Warde
Mrs. Fenton
Joan Valerie
June Preston
Kane Richmond
Ralph Percy
Leyland Hodgson
Robert Boggs
John Sutton
Keith Jeffrey
Frederick Worlock
Inspector Hugh Drake
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Frank O'Shaughnessy
Clarence Muse
Butler
Lal Chand Mehra
Ramullah
Shemp Howard
Shorty McCoy, the Carnarsie Kid
Dorothy Dearing
Mrs. Percy
Eddy Chandler
Lefty, policeman
Jimmie Dundee
Bill, policeman
Lee Phelps
Joe, policeman
Ralph Dunn
Pat, policeman
Frank Fanning
Policeman
Carl Faulkner
Policeman
Stanley Blystone
Fingerprint Expert
Paul Kruger
Guard
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
Hindu in lineup
Trevor Bardette
Hindu in lineup
Bud Geary
Mechanic
Alan Davis
Lt. Cooper, pilot
Catherine Craig
Stewardess
Charles Tannen
Radio announcer
Sol M. Wurtzel
Producer
Harry Lachman
Director
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Lester Ziffren
Original Screenplay
Virgil Miller
Director of Photography
Louis R. Loeffler
Film Editor
Richard Day
Art Director
Lewis Creber
Art Director
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Harry M. Leonard
Sound
Joseph E. Aiken
Sound
Emil Newman
Musical Director
Leo Arnaud
Orchestrator
Cyril Mockridge
Original Music
Sam Benson
Wardrobe
Herschel McCoy
Costumes
Earl Derr Biggers
Characters
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