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Robert Ellis (story) and
Helen Logan (story) ...
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Release Date:
17 January 1936 (USA) more
Tagline:
San Francisco is the scene of Chan's newest and most baffling mystery!
Plot:
The heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
One of the best Chans more (16 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Warner Oland | ... | Charlie Chan |
| Rosina Lawrence | ... | Alice Lowell |
| Charles Quigley | ... | Dick Williams (Alice's fiancé) |
| Henrietta Crosman | ... | Henrietta Lowell |
| Edward Trevor | ... | Fred Gage (Janice's husband) |
| Astrid Allwyn | ... | Janice Gage (daughter) |
| Herbert Mundin | ... | Baxter (butler) |
| Jonathan Hale | ... | Warren T. Phelps (lawyer) |
| Egon Brecher | ... | Ulrich (caretaker) |
| Gloria Roy | ... | Carlotta (medium) |
| Ivan Miller | ... | Morton of Homicide |
| Arthur Edmund Carewe | ... | Prof. Bowen (advisor in psychic research) |
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72 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Revealing mistakes: When Charlie is searching the house while using a flashlight, the beam of light is not from the flashlight, angle is wrong and his wrist is exposed in the beam of light. more
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Charlie Chan: Boy Scout knife like lady's hairpin - have many uses. more
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Followed by Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937) more
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A murder is revealed at a seance. All in attendance had motive and opportunity. There are a lots of nice tricks employed at the seance that Charlie has to figure out. Even after a plethora of red herrings, it still could be anyone when all are assembled in a typical ending in which Charlie pulls a surprise to reveal the criminal. There is no #1 or #2 son here, and Herbert Mundin, as the butler, who stands in for #1 and #2 to provide the laughs, is really annoyingly silly, more in the mode of Mantan Moreland in the later bad Chan films only minus the racism. However, he gives the crusty matriarch of the family a chance to deliver some rib-tickling lines at his expense. Listen for them. Oland is the best of the Chans and performs the role with dignity and some humor. You get the feeling that, although he isn't a Chinese actor, he respects the character. No "Confucius Say" here. I enjoy watching this film now and again and think anyone into old-style mysteries will too.