Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
The strange case of murder by magic!
1939 | 72m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Norman Foster |
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| Writer: | John Larkin |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 31, 1939 |
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| Director: | Norman Foster |
| Writer: | John Larkin |
| Genres: | Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | suicide, blackmail, nightclub, magic show, challenge, mind reading, police detective, knife throwing, disguise, newspaper reporter, séance, extrasensory perception, spiritualism, propeller airplane, world's fair, magician, mysticism, magician assistant, comical sidekick, phoney spiritualist, pygmy darts, driven to suicide, airplane in storm |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 14, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Sidney Toler | Charlie Chan |
| Victor Sen Yung | Jimmy Chan |
| Cesar Romero | Fred Rhadini |
| Douglas Fowley | Peter Lewis |
| Pauline Moore | Eve Cairo |
| Donald MacBride | Deputy Police Chief J.J. Kilvaine |
| Douglass Dumbrille | Stewart Salsbury, alias Thomas Gregory |
| Trevor Bardette | Dr. Zodiac's Servant |
| Gerald Mohr | Dr. Zodiac (in disguise) |
| Wally Vernon | Elmer |
| June Gale | Myra Rhadini |
| Billie Seward | Mrs. Bessie Sibley |
| Sally Blane | Stella Essex |
| Charles Halton | Uncle Redley |
| Louis Jean Heydt | Paul Essex |
| Jack Chefe | Audience Member |
| Heinie Conklin | First Taxicab Driver |
| Sayre Dearing | Audience Member |
| Bud Geary | Cop at Station House |
| Harold Goodwin | Airplane Steward |
| Edith Hallor | Toots - Stout Woman |
| Fred Kelsey | Detective - in Cab and at Theatre |
| Al Kikume | Waiter at Hawaiian Village |
| Kay Linaker | Egyptian Princess Ectoplasm |
| Hank Mann | Second Taxicab Driver |
| Margaret Mann | Airplane Passenger |
| Frank Meredith | Second Detective |
| Harold Miller | Audience Member |
| Bruce Mitchell | Police Desk Sergeant |
| Hans Moebus | Audience Member |
| Bert Moorhouse | Audience Member |
| David Newell | Audience Member |
| Imboden Parrish | Plane Passenger |
| Tom Quinn | Man at Landing Gate |
| Arthur Rankin | Airways Official |
| Fred Rapport | Audience Member |
| Gloria Roy | Plane Passenger |
| Jeffrey Sayre | Man at Landing Gate |
| Harry Strang | Taxicab Dispatcher |
| Charles Tannen | Plane Passenger |
| Edwin Tuttle | Audience Member |
| John Elliott | Doctor - Backstage |
| Name | Job |
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| Norman Foster | Director |
| John Larkin | Writer |
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The more effective pairing of "Charlie" (Sidney Toler) and No 2 son "Jimmy" (Victor Sen Yung) are embroiled in an investigation into an apparent suicide of his friend "Paul" (Louis Heydt) on a plane to San Francisco. It soon starts to look like there is much more too it to - the last page of a manus ... cript he was working on has gone missing - and investigations lead them to the door of the mysterious "Dr. Zodiak" who claims enormous psychic powers. What ensues now is quite a cleverly constructed mystery with loads of mystic hokum, some blackmail and a good supporting cast from the likes of Pauline Moore ("Eve") and Cesar Romero as rival mind reader "Rhadini". The tension for this entertaining drama is really helped by spooky scenarios and the somewhat menacing costume of the enigmatic "Zodiak" - indeed quite a bit of effort has gone into the production culminating in quite a surprising conclusion involving an old iron maiden. One of the best of the series.