Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

8/31/19391h 12m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The strange case of murder by magic! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Norman Foster

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

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

Cast

Sidney Toler

~ as ~

Charlie Chan

Victor Sen Yung

~ as ~

Jimmy Chan

Cesar Romero

~ as ~

Fred Rhadini

Douglas Fowley

~ as ~

Peter Lewis

Pauline Moore

~ as ~

Eve Cairo

Donald MacBride

~ as ~

Deputy Police Chief J.J. Kilvaine

Douglass Dumbrille

~ as ~

Stewart Salsbury, alias Thomas Gregory

Trevor Bardette

~ as ~

Dr. Zodiac's Servant

Gerald Mohr

~ as ~

Dr. Zodiac (in disguise)

Wally Vernon

~ as ~

Elmer

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
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 manuscript 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.