Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money, also known as Hot Money, is a 1946 American film directed by Terry O. Morse, featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. This is the second and last appearance of Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown, the cousin of Charlie Chan's usual chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland).

Plot
Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific, US Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help; two attempts have been made on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). The captain asks Chan to complete the dead man's mission and find out who is responsible for the recent surfacing of counterfeit dollars and stolen art. Chan declines, citing urgent business in Australia, but sets out to find the murderer.

Cast

 * Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
 * Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan (Number 2 son)
 * Joseph Crehan as Captain Black
 * Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown
 * John Harmon as Freddie Kirk
 * Bruce Edwards as Harold Mayfair
 * Dick Elliott as P.T. Burke
 * Joseph Allen as George Brace, the Purser
 * Gloria Warren as Rona Simmonds, an English tourist with a crush on the purser George Brace
 * Rick Vallin as Tao Erickson
 * Amira Moustafa as Laura Erickson, Tao's wife
 * Tristram Coffin as Scott Pearson
 * Selmer Jackson as Ship's Doctor
 * Dudley Dickerson as Big Ben
 * Rito Punay as Pete the Steward
 * Emmett Vogan as Professor Martin
 * Elaine Lange as Cynthia Martin, the professor's wife
 * Leslie Denison as missionary, Reverend Whipple (alias for Theodore M. Lane)
 * Alan Douglas as Joe Murdock, man posing as Mrs. Whipple

Production
The film entered the public domain due to the omission of a valid copyright notice on its original prints.