Charlie Chan's Secret

1935

Mystery

3
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1913 1.9K

charlie chan

Plot summary

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.

Director

Gordon Wiles Photo
Gordon Wiles

Top cast

Brick Sullivan Photo
Brick Sullivan as Policeman
Jonathan Hale Photo
Jonathan Hale as Warren T. Phelps
Warner Oland Photo
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Chuck Hamilton Photo
Chuck Hamilton as Policeman
720p.WEB
668.05 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
30 fps
1 hr 12 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by r-c-s 8 / 10

one of the best Chan movies

Reviewed by bob.decker 7 / 10

A solid entry in the series with excellent supporting players

I've worked my way recently through about 10 of the films in the Chan series and this is one of the most compelling I've seen yet -- largely due to the good chemistry between Warner Oland and Henrietta Crosman, who is one of the more memorable of the leading ladies in the series. True, the Chan family is missing -- except when viewed briefly in a photograph at the film's very end -- and the San Francisco location isn't very convincing; it is hard to place the "ancient" house where much of the action takes place in a city where most everything was burnt to the ground in 1906. Nevertheless many of the typically alluring elements of the Chan films are present in full force -- society ladies in long dresses, a shady pair of mediums, séances that come to a screaming end, pitch black scenes in secret rooms, and odd applications of 1930s technology. Jonathan Hale is a welcome presence and the comic relief supplied by Herbert Mundin as the butler stops short of being annoying, which is more than one can say for some of the later entries in the series. All in all quite satisfying.
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