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Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
Charlie Chan's Secret-1935
Directed By Gordon Wiles
Written By Robert Ellis
Helen Logan
Joseph Hoffman
Cast Warner Oland
Henrietta Crosman
Rosina Lawrence
Produced By John Stone
Sol M. Wurtzel
Cinematography By Rudolph Mate
Film Editing By Nick DeMaggio
Music By Samuel Kaylin
Studio Twentieth Century-Fox
Distributed By Twentieth Century-Fox
Franchise Charlie Chan Franchise
Country United States
Language English
Release Date January 10, 1936
Runtime 72 Minutes

Overview[]

Charlie Chan investigates when the heir to a large fortune, who has been presumed dead, appears. He is then murdered.

Plot[]

Cast[]

  • Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
  • Jerry Milley as Allen Colby
  • Henrietta Crosman as Mrs. Lowell
  • Rosina Lawrence as Alice Lowell
  • Charles Quigley as Dick Williams
  • Astrid Allwyn as Janice Lowell Gage
  • Edward Trevor as Fred GAge
  • Herbert Mundin as Baxter, the butler
  • Jonathan Hale as Warren Phelps
  • Egon Brecher as Ulrich
  • Arthur Edmund Carewe as Prof. Bowen.

Production[]

Reception[]

Taglines[]

  • San Francisco is the scene of Chan's newest and most baffling mystery!
  • CHAN WEAVES HIS WILDEST WEB AROUND AN UNSEEN PERIL!
  • A Spine-Tingling New Mystery for the Master Sleuth!

Trivia[]

  • The film is the public domain due to the omission of a valid copyright notice on original prints.
  • Although this was regarded as another entry in a "20th Century-Fox" "B" series, it was shot by the highly acclaimed Director of Photography Rudolph Maté, who was normally assigned to only top-rank productions.

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