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21 June 1931 (USA)
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CHARLIE CHAN'S Latest Thriller
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The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress. full summary | add synopsis
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One of the best Chans and the earliest extant
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Warner Oland | ... | Charlie Chan |
| Sally Eilers | ... | Julie O'Neil |
 | Bela Lugosi | ... | Tarneverro |
| Dorothy Revier | ... | Shelah Fane |
| Victor Varconi | ... | Robert Fyfe |
| Murray Kinnell | ... | Smith |
| William Post Jr. | ... | Alan Jaynes |
| Robert Young | ... | Jimmy |
| Violet Dunn | ... | Anna the maid |
| J.M. Kerrigan | ... | MacMaster |
| Mary Gordon | ... | Mrs. MacMaster |
| Rita Rozelle | ... | Luana |
| Otto Yamaoka | ... | Kashimo |
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71 min
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Of the five Warner Oland Charlie Chan films based on the original Earl Derr Biggers novels, only this one still survives. The other four are believed to have been lost in one of two fires, one in the thirties and the other in the sixties.
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Revealing mistakes: When Charlie is inspecting underneath the table, the motion of the light spot on the floor does not correspond to the position of Charlie's flashlight.
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Charlie Chan:
Always harder to keep murder secret than for egg to bounce on sidewalk.
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Followed by Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
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This film, taken from one of Earl Der Biggers original novels is one of the very best of the Chans. It is the second of the series, and the first, third, fourth and fifth are lost films. We can see the early Chan only through this film, and we see a very human Chan, rather than the more restrained Chan in the later films.
It also features a near tour-de-force scene by Bela Lugosi in which he, as the fortune teller to the stars Tarnaverro, forces a confession from Shela Fane, a movie star making a film in Honolulu. A confession that he witholds from Charlie Chan...