Mantan Moreland Movies

The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named...

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

Mantan takes a job as office boy at a new TV station and gets to watch several pre-recorded musical numbers.

A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually...

God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black...

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.

In order to make some cash, buddies Mantan and Alex found the "Ghost Association," which will hold mock seances for the local residents. After...

Two down-on-their luck friends suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice.

Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the...

Samson Brown is a lazy and shiftless husband who lets his wife, Hannah, support the family. He is constantly insulted and annoyed by his in-laws, who...

Professional gambler The Duke (Dots Johnson) attempts to cheat Handsome Harry Hansom (Monte Hawley), who owns a successful Harlem nightclub, out of...

An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.

The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.

The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as...

Mr. Wilson hires Mantan to travel out West and clean out an old property. Mantan runs into trouble in believing the house is haunted while a gang...