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Summary

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

Details

Release Date: March 1, 1940

Runtime: 66 minutes

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Comedy

Rating: 6.8/10 (19 votes)


Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection

  • Charlie Chan in Honolulu

    Charlie Chan in Honolulu

    While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

  • Charlie Chan in Reno

    Charlie Chan in Reno

    Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.

  • Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

    Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

    Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.

  • City in Darkness

    City in Darkness

    Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

  • Charlie Chan in Panama

    Charlie Chan in Panama

    Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

  • Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

    Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

    On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

  • Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

    Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

    A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.

  • Murder Over New York

    Murder Over New York

    When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

  • Dead Men Tell

    Dead Men Tell

    When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.

  • Charlie Chan in Rio

    Charlie Chan in Rio

    In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.

  • Castle in the Desert

    Castle in the Desert

    Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...

  • Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

    Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

    Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.

  • Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

    To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

  • Black Magic

    Black Magic

    Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.

  • The Jade Mask

    The Jade Mask

    The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum. When the scientist is killed, Chan must sort through all very likely suspects, including the man's sister and his butler.

  • The Scarlet Clue

    The Scarlet Clue

    Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

  • The Red Dragon

    The Red Dragon

    Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

  • The Shanghai Cobra

    The Shanghai Cobra

    Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

  • Shadows Over Chinatown

    Shadows Over Chinatown

    In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.

  • Dangerous Money

    Dangerous Money

    A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.

  • The Trap

    The Trap

    When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.

  • Dark Alibi

    Dark Alibi

    After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.


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Cast

  • Sidney Toler

    Sidney Toler

    Charlie Chan

  • Jean Rogers

    Jean Rogers

    Kathi Lenesch (Baroness Kathi von Czardos)

  • Lionel Atwill

    Lionel Atwill

    Cliveden Compton

  • Mary Nash

    Mary Nash

    Miss Sarah Finch

  • Victor Sen Yung

    Victor Sen Yung

    Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)

  • Kane Richmond

    Kane Richmond

    Richard Cabot

  • Chris-Pin Martin

    Chris-Pin Martin

    Sergeant Montero

  • Lionel Royce

    Lionel Royce

    Dr. Rudolph Grosser

  • Helen Ericson

    Helen Ericson

    Stewardess

  • Jack La Rue

    Jack La Rue

    Emil Manolo

  • Edwin Stanley

    Edwin Stanley

    Governor D.C. Webster

  • Donald Douglas

    Donald Douglas

    Captain Lewis

  • Frank Puglia

    Frank Puglia

    Achmed Halide

  • Addison Richards

    Addison Richards

    R.J. Godley

  • Edward Keane

    Edward Keane

    Dr. Fredericks

  • Eddie Acuff

    Eddie Acuff

    Dance Sailor Suspicious of Kathi

  • Jimmy Aubrey

    Jimmy Aubrey

    Drunk Fisherman with Cigar at Club

  • Brooks Benedict

    Brooks Benedict

    Nightclub / Dance Extra

  • Lane Chandler

    Lane Chandler

    Powerhouse Search Officer

  • Franklyn Farnum

    Franklyn Farnum

    Marine Officer

  • Edward Gargan

    Edward Gargan

    Plant Workman

  • Harold Goodwin

    Harold Goodwin

    Military Police Corporal

  • Alberto Morin

    Alberto Morin

    Hotel Desk Clerk

  • Charles Sherlock

    Charles Sherlock

    Soldier

  • Charles Stevens

    Charles Stevens

    Native Fisherman-Cameraman Spy