Black Magic (1944 film)

Black Magic, later retitled Meeting at Midnight for television, is a 1944 mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

Charlie postpones his trip home from service with the government to Honolulu to help with the investigation of murder involving Number One Daughter (Frances Chan) and an easily spooked chauffeur (Mantan Moreland).

The police offer the case to the famous Chinese Detective and he reluctantly agrees in order to get his daughter released.

Birmingham Brown's comedy with the various seance gadgets serve to link the movie audience with a "me too" bond which is very warm and human.

Since there was no gun and no bullet, Charlie Chan has the Coroner perform an experiment to determine what might have happened.