Charlie Chan arrives at a docked charter boat to retrieve his absent from college number 2 son Victor Sen Yung. But the murder of the woman who was in charge of the charter Ethel Griffies plus another of her passengers keeps him there. Good thing to have the best homicide cop around for a solution even though the second murder is committed during the investigation.
As it turns out in Dead Men Tell the late Ms. Griffies was the descendant of a pirate who hid treasure somewhere nearby. The various passengers on her charter all will share in the treasure as they aid in the finding. Only one of them gets a bit greedy. What he and Sidney Toler are looking for are pieces of a treasure map that Griffies gave to the other passengers
Besides the passengers is a mysterious and Eugene O'Neill like creation of a captain played by Truman Bradley. Bradley has project he's working on all his own.
Dead Men Tell is a good enough Charlie Chan feature. Sadly it repeated one gag one time too many. It got less funny every time Victor Sen Yung fell in the water.
As it turns out in Dead Men Tell the late Ms. Griffies was the descendant of a pirate who hid treasure somewhere nearby. The various passengers on her charter all will share in the treasure as they aid in the finding. Only one of them gets a bit greedy. What he and Sidney Toler are looking for are pieces of a treasure map that Griffies gave to the other passengers
Besides the passengers is a mysterious and Eugene O'Neill like creation of a captain played by Truman Bradley. Bradley has project he's working on all his own.
Dead Men Tell is a good enough Charlie Chan feature. Sadly it repeated one gag one time too many. It got less funny every time Victor Sen Yung fell in the water.