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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: December 13, 1940

Runtime: 65 minutes

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Comedy, Thriller

Rating: 6.1/10 (17 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

  • Victor Sen Yung

    Victor Sen Yung

    Jimmy Chan

  • Donald MacBride

    Donald MacBride

    Insp. Vance

  • Leyland Hodgson

    Leyland Hodgson

    Robert Boggs

  • Melville Cooper

    Melville Cooper

    Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton

  • John Sutton

    John Sutton

    Richard Jeffery

  • Kane Richmond

    Kane Richmond

    Ralph Percy

  • Marjorie Weaver

    Marjorie Weaver

    Patricia Shaw

  • Robert Lowery

    Robert Lowery

    David Elliot

  • Ricardo Cortez

    Ricardo Cortez

    George Kirby

  • Frederick Worlock

    Frederick Worlock

    Insp. Hugh Drake

  • Joan Valerie

    Joan Valerie

    June Preston

  • Catherine Craig

    Catherine Craig

    Stewardess

  • Clarence Muse

    Clarence Muse

    Party Server

  • Stanley Blystone

    Stanley Blystone

    Fingerprint Expert

  • Shemp Howard

    Shemp Howard

    Shorty McCoy alias Rashid the Fakir

  • Trevor Bardette

    Trevor Bardette

    Ramullah #2, with cane

  • Eddy Chandler

    Eddy Chandler

    HQ Sergeant Lefty

  • Lal Chand Mehra

    Lal Chand Mehra

    Ramullah, alias Aga Singh

  • Frank Coghlan Jr.

    Frank Coghlan Jr.

    Frankie O'Shaughnessy

  • Bud Geary

    Bud Geary

    Mechanic-Henchman with Light

  • Lee Phelps

    Lee Phelps

    Police Officer Joe

  • Ralph Dunn

    Ralph Dunn

    Police Officer

  • Paul Kruger

    Paul Kruger

    Guard

  • Charles Tannen

    Charles Tannen

    Airport Announcer Voice

  • Bhogwan Singh

    Bhogwan Singh

    Lineup East Indian

  • Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

    Jack 'Tiny' Lipson

    Hindu (unconfirmed)