Charlie Chan's Secret

Jan 10, 1936

1h 12m

★ 6.8

San Francisco is the scene of Chan's newest and most baffling mystery!

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Charlie Chan

Warner Oland

Alice Lowell

Rosina Lawrence

Dick Williams

Charles Quigley

Mrs. Henrietta Lowell

Henrietta Crosman

Fred Gage

Edward Trevor

Janice Lowell Gage

Astrid Allwyn

Baxter

Herbert Mundin

Ulrich

Egon Brecher

Madame Carlotta Bowen

Gloria Roy

Morton of Homicide

Ivan Miller

Professor Bowen

Arthur Edmund Carewe

Warren T. Phelps

Jonathan Hale

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.

6.2

Charlie Chan in Reno

Jun 16, 1939

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.

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.