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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
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Directed By Lynn Shores
Written By John Larkin
Cast Sidney Toler
Victor Sen Yung
C. Henry Gordon
Marc Lawrence
Produced By Walter Morosco
Ralph Dietrich
Cinematography By Virgil Miller
Film Editing By James B. Clark
Music By Emil Newman
Studio Twentieth Century-Fox
Distributed By Twentieth Century-Fox
Franchise Charlie Chan Franchise
Country United States
Language English
Release Date September 6, 1940
Runtime 63 Minutes

Overview[]

An escaped convicted murderer hides out in a New York wax museum. While there, he has plastic surgery to disguise himself in order to get revenge on Charlie Chan.

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Cast[]

  • Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
  • Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan
  • C. Henry Gordon as Dr. Cream
  • Marc Lawrence as Steve McBirney
  • Joan Valerie as Lily Latimer
  • Marguerite Chapman as Mary Bolton
  • Ted Osborne as Tom Agnew/"Butcher" Dagan
  • Michael Visaroff as Dr. Otto Von Brom
  • Hilda Vaughn as Mrs. Joe Rocke
  • Charles Wagenheim as Willie Fern
  • Archie Twitchell as Carter Lane

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Taglines[]

  • Death in the electric chair faces Charlie Chan... at the hands of a murderer twelve years dead!
  • A chamber of horrors becomes a murder hideout!

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