| The Black Camel (1931) | |
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| Directed By | Hamilton MacFadden |
| Written By | Hugh Stanislaus Stange |
| Screenplay By | Barry Conners Philip Klein Dudley Nichols |
| Cast | Warner Oland Sally Eilers Bela Lugosi Dorothy Revier |
| Produced By | Hamilton MacFadden |
| Cinematography By | Joseph August Daniel B. Clark |
| Film Editing By | Alfred DeGaetano |
| Music By | Samuel Kaylin |
| Studio | Fox Film Corporation |
| Distributed By | Fox Film Corporation |
| Franchise | Charlie Chan Franchise |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | June 21, 1931 |
| Runtime | 67 or 71 Minutes |
Overview[]
Charlie Chan finds that the keys to solving the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress lie with an enigmatic psychic and the unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier.
Plot[]
Cast[]
- Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Sally Eilers as Julie O'Neil
- Bela Lugosi as Tarneverro/Arthur Mayo
- Dorothy Revier as Shelah Fane
- Victor Varconi as Robert Fyfe
- Murray Kinnell as Archie Smith
- Robert Young as Jimmy Bradshaw
- Violet Dunn as Anna
- J.M. Kerrigan as Thomas MacMasters
- Mary Gordon as Mrs. MacMasters
- Rita Rozells as Luana
- Otto Yamaoka as Kashimo
Production[]
Reception[]
Taglines[]
- The unsolved secrets of Hollywood.
- Thrilling-Mysterious-Weird!
Trivia[]
- Of the five Warner Oland Charlie Chan films based on the original Earl Derr Biggers novels, only this one still survives. The other four are believed to have been lost in one of two fires, one in the 1930s and the other in the 1960s.
- The unsolved murder of the Hollywood actor, which is an important plot point, was inspired by the unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor in 1922.