Charlie Chan's Secret

Jan 10, 1936

1h 12m

★ 6.9

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 Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...

6.7

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

May 21, 1937

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

6.8

Charlie Chan at the Opera

Dec 4, 1936

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

4.7

Madam City Hunter

Sep 16, 1993

A young lady and her father are threatened by a gang named the Five Fingers. Private eye Charlie comes to the rescue.

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.

6.3

Dead Men Tell

Mar 28, 1941

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.

6.2

Charlie Chan in Rio

Sep 5, 1941

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.

5.9

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Feb 14, 1944

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.

6.4

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

May 20, 1944

To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

7.0

Black Magic

Aug 19, 1944

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.

5.8

The Shanghai Cobra

Sep 29, 1945

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

6.6

The Red Dragon

Aug 1, 1945

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

5.9

The Scarlet Clue

May 11, 1945

Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

6.1

The Jade Mask

Jan 26, 1945

The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum. When the scientist is killed, Chan must sort through all very likely suspects, including the man's sister and his butler.

6.0

Shadows Over Chinatown

Jun 27, 1946

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.

5.7

Dangerous Money

Oct 12, 1946

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.

6.1

Dark Alibi

May 25, 1946

After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.