Charlie Chan in Reno

Jun 16, 1939

1h 10m

★ 6.2

THE CASE OF THE MURDERED DIVORCEE!

Overview

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.

Genres

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Charlie Chan

Sidney Toler

Dr. Ainsley

Ricardo Cortez

Vivian Wells

Phyllis Brooks

Sheriff Tombstone Fletcher

Slim Summerville

Curtis Whitman

Kane Richmond

Jimmy Chan

Victor Sen Yung

Mary Whitman

Pauline Moore

Cab Driver

Eddie Collins

Mrs. Wayne Russell

Kay Linaker

Jeanne Bentley

Louise Henry

Wally Burke

Robert Lowery

Police Chief King

Charles D. Brown

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.

6.2

Charlie Chan at the Circus

Mar 27, 1936

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

7.1

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Aug 7, 1936

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

6.6

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Aug 31, 1939

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.

6.4

City in Darkness

Nov 15, 1939

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

6.9

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Jun 4, 1935

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

6.8

Charlie Chan in London

Sep 12, 1934

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.

6.4

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Dec 30, 1938

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

6.5

Charlie Chan in Paris

Jan 21, 1935

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

6.6

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

Oct 11, 1935

When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.

6.0

The Black Camel

Jun 21, 1931

Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.

7.0

Charlie Chan on Broadway

Sep 22, 1937

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

6.5

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Dec 17, 1937

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

6.7

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

May 2, 1940

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

7.7

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Sep 6, 1940

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.

6.8

Charlie Chan in Panama

Mar 1, 1940

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

6.1

Murder Over New York

Dec 13, 1940

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.