The Mandarin Mystery Explained

The Mandarin Mystery
Director:	Ralph Staub
Producer:	Nat Levine (producer) Victor Zobel (associate producer)
Screenplay:	Cortland Fitzsimmons
Starring:	See below
Cinematography:	Jack A. Marta
Editing:	Grace Goddard
Distributor:	Republic Pictures
Runtime:	66 minutes (USA) 53 minutes (USA, edited version)
Country:	United States
Language:	English

The Mandarin Mystery is a 1936 American mystery crime film directed by Ralph Staub, loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery, a novel featuring detective character Ellery Queen.

Plot summary

Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.

Cast

• Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, a mystery writer and amateur detective
• Charlotte Henry as Josephine Temple
• Rita La Roy as Martha Kirk
• Wade Boteler as Inspector Richard Queen, A police inspector, Ellery's father.
• Franklin Pangborn as Mellish, the hotel manager
• George Irving as Dr. Alexander Kirk
• Kay Hughes as Irene Kirk
• William Newell as Detective Guffy
• George Walcott as Donald Trent
• Edwin Stanley as Howard Bronson
• Edgar Allen as Detective
• Bert Roach
• Richard Beach as Reporter
• Monte Vandergrift as Detective
• Grace Durkin as Girl on Street Corner
• Mary Russell as Girl on Street Corner
• Mary Bovard as Girl At Cocktail Bar
• June Johnson as Girl At Cocktail Bar

Soundtrack

No soundtrack album was created