Supersleuth Charlie Chan presented a more positive character, but "his frequent quotations from Confucius and his rather elegant way of solving cases were not enough to compensate for the low position of the Chinese in the eyes of most foreigners," according to one film critic.
接下來的神探陳查禮雖是正面人物，然而他詭計多端、獐頭鼠目，「並不能光靠他滿嘴孔夫子格言，或稍文雅的辦案格調，就能平衡華人在洋人心目中的地位」，一位影評人指出。