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3.8/10   411 votes
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Director:
Writers:
David Axelrod (writer)
Stan Burns (writer)
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Release Date:
February 1981 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Murderer who turn victim into human baked potato have real appetite for crime.
Plot:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Halfway House: The Failed Completist
 (From FilmExperience. 17 October 2009, 9:08 AM, PDT)

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A sad attempt at making a Chan film. more (13 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Ustinov ... Charlie Chan
Lee Grant ... Mrs. Lupowitz

Angie Dickinson ... Dragon Queen
Richard Hatch ... Lee Chan, Jr.
Brian Keith ... Police Chief Baxter

Roddy McDowall ... Gillespie
Rachel Roberts ... Mrs. Dangers

Michelle Pfeiffer ... Cordelia Farenington

Paul Ryan ... Masten
Johnny Sekka ... Stefan
Bennett Ohta ... Hawaiian Chief of Police
David Hirokane ... Lee Chan Sr.
Karlene Crockett ... Brenda Lupowitz

Michael Fairman ... Bernard Lupowitz
James Ray ... Haynes
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Additional Details

Runtime:
97 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L (re-rating) | Iceland:LH (original rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the Shanghai bar scene, Lee Chan, played by Richard Hatch, orders a "Captain Apollo on the rocks." Captain Apollo was Hatch's character on the TV series "Battlestar Galactica" (1978). more
Movie Connections:
References Ben-Hur (1959) more

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4 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
A sad attempt at making a Chan film., 16 April 2000
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Author: admjtk1701 from New York, NY

This is the perfect example of how not to make a Charlie Chan film--or any film for that matter! It was meant as a comedy--but it's not funny. The mystery is lame. The acting is awful. A good cast wasted by a terrible script! Peter Ustinov is better than this and should have said "No!" to this one. A big waste of time and money. Only for absolute Chan fanatics and then only so they can say , "Yeah. I saw it." To paraphrase from a much better Chan film, "Bad film like dead fish--can not stand test of time!" See any of the 20th Century Fox Chan films from the 30's and early 40's instead.

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