In the 22nd Charlie Chan movie, Sidney Toler and Number Two Son Victor Sen Yung are flying to San Francisco with mystery writer Louis Jean Heydt, who has been the Chans' guest in Honolulu. But Heydt dies on the plane, and his manuscript vanishes. When they arrive, Chan finds a link between Heydt's death and a phony psychic, whom stage magician Cesar Romero and reporter Douglas Fowley are trying to expose.
The title's Treasure Island has no relation to the Robert Louis Stevenson story. It refers to the artificial island in San Francisco Bay, site of the 1939 Exposition. Stock footage and 20th Century Fox's studio offers the audience a funny and mysterious story with, alas, a nonsensical solution to the mystery, involving a real mind reader and some very muddled motives. By this point did anyone really care, when they could look at Paul Moore (in her third movie in the series), Douglass Dumbrille, Sally Blane, and Donald MacBride as another high-ranking member of the police force?
The title's Treasure Island has no relation to the Robert Louis Stevenson story. It refers to the artificial island in San Francisco Bay, site of the 1939 Exposition. Stock footage and 20th Century Fox's studio offers the audience a funny and mysterious story with, alas, a nonsensical solution to the mystery, involving a real mind reader and some very muddled motives. By this point did anyone really care, when they could look at Paul Moore (in her third movie in the series), Douglass Dumbrille, Sally Blane, and Donald MacBride as another high-ranking member of the police force?