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The Peacock Fan (1929)

This murder mystery from B-studio Chesterfield Motion Picture Corporation is a fairly good film that treads familiar ground. When a rich man is found dead, nearly everyone who has been in the house in the last 12 hours is a suspect. Is it murder or suicide?

Lucien Prival stars as Dr. Chang Dorfman (we’re not kidding here), an unofficial detective who is something of a prototypical Charlie Chan.

Prival gets support from Dorothy Dwan, Tom O’Brien, Rosemary Theby, Carlton King (as the victim), Gladden James, David Findlay, James Wilcox and Spencer Bell.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a VHS videotape copy of an analog transfer of a very-good 16mm reduction print of, what may be, the British distribution version of the film.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.

To our knowledge, this is the only available edition of the film on DVD home video.

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