In this chapter of the Charlie Chan saga, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) goes in hot pursuit of a killer, and ends up getting involved with magic and murder. Meeting at Midnight is alternately titled Black Magic.
Mantan Moreland!
Moreland, with his bulging eyes and cackling laugh, quickly became a favorite supporting player in Hollywood movies. He is perhaps best known for his role as chauffeur Birmingham Brown in Monogram's Charlie Chan series. At the height of his career, Moreland received steady work from major film studios, as well as from independent producers who starred Moreland in low-budget, all-black-cast comedies.
On the Beastie Boys album Ill Communication a Moreland sample was used in the song B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak. The sample is from his party album That Ain't My Finger.
Moreland's last featured role was in the 1964 darkly humorous horror film Spider Baby, which was patterned after Universal's thrillers of the 1940s.
This film is available online as a free download.
