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Release Date:
21 June 1931 (USA) more
Tagline:
CHARLIE CHAN'S Latest Thriller
Plot:
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 more (22 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
71 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono | Mono (Western Electric System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Charlie Chan: Always harder to keep murder secret than for egg to bounce on sidewalk. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Charlie Chan's Courage (1934) more

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One of the best Chans and the earliest extant, 3 October 2000
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Author: Jim-455 from Seattle, Washington

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...

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