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David Axelrod (writer)
Stan Burns (writer)
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Release Date:
February 1981 (USA) more
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Murderer who turn victim into human baked potato have real appetite for crime.
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Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders... more | add synopsis
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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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97 min
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Iceland:L (re-rating) | Iceland:LH (original rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | UK:PG | USA:PG
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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
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References "Battlestar Galactica" (1978) more
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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.