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1926
George Kuwa. |
This silent film
was the very first film to be adapted from an Earl Der Biggers novel. This is a
'lost' film as no print exists. |
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1926
Kamiyama
Sojin. |
This is also a 'lost' film as no print exists. |
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1929
Fox
91 min.
E.L. Parks.
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Sir George hires
Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is
murdered and the couple, married, run off to India.
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1931
Fox
76 min.
Warner Oland |
This was the first Fox production with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
This is also a 'lost' film. However, the Spanish
language version "Eran Trace" exists. |
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1931
Fox
67
min.
Warner Oland
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Sheila Fayne is
seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, but won't marry him
without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro.
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1932
Fox
73 min.
Warner Oland
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Charlie is almost the murder victim in the entry. Unfortunately, this
is also a 'lost' film as no known print exists. |
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1933
Fox
70 min.
Warner Oland
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This is also
another 'lost' Chan film. |
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1934
Fox
70 min.
Warner Oland |
This is another 'lost' film. |
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1934
Fox
79
min.
Warner Oland
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Paul Gray is
convicted of the 'Midnight Stable Murder" His sister pleads with Charlie to
re-open the case and save her brother from the gallows. |
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1935
Fox
72
min.
Warner Oland
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Charlie is on a visit to Paris, ostensibly on vacation, is really a
mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer
Nardi is killed before she can tell him much.
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1935
Fox
65 min.
Warner Oland
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Charlie travels to
Egypt to investigate for the French Archeological Society. The professor he
came to see is missing but an X-ray machine reveals the presence of a corpse in
an Egyptian sarcophagus. |
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1935
Fox
70
min.
Warner Oland
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The Chinese government calls Charlie Chan to Shanghai to investigate
a murder involving an opium ring. Ring leaders kidnap Charlie and attempt to
have him killed. |
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1936
Fox
71 min.
Warner Oland
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An ocean liner
sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead... but
local sleuth Charlie Chan is not so sure, and flies to San Francisco to
investigate further. |
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1936
Fox
72 min.
Warner Oland
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While on vacation with his wife and twelve children, famed detective
Charlie Chan visits a circus at just the right time to become involved in the
murder of one of the circus owners. |
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1936
Fox
70 min.
Warner Oland
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While steaming from
Honolulu to Los Angeles the owner of a prize racehorse, headed for the Santa
Anita Handicap, is killed. Apparently kicked to death by his stallion. Not so,
deduces Charlie. |
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1936
Fox
66 min.
Warner Oland
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The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from
an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow performers (his wife and her
lover).
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1937
Fox
71 min.
Warner Oland
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Spies have an
invention which will allow its posessor to remote-control flying aircraft. The
U.S. Navy, the Berlin police, and No. 1 son Lee Chan help Charlie capture the
spies. |
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1937
Fox
68 min.
Warner Oland
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A
New York nightclub singer plans to reveal gangsters named in her private diary.
The diary disappears and the singer is murdered. Charlie Chan is called into to
investigate. |
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1938
Fox
71 min.
Warner Oland
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Chan is on a
gambling vacation in Monaco. He is called upon to solve two murders.
This was Warner Oland's last film. |
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1938
Fox
68 min.
Sidney Toler
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News of a soon to be born grandchild sends the house into a frenzy.
This was Sidney Toler's first film as Charlie Chan. |
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1939
Fox
70 min.
Sidney Toler
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Mary Whitman has
gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of
murdering a fellow guest at her hotel. |
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1939
Fox
75 min.
Sidney Toler
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A
novelist friend of Charlie's appears to have committed suicide. At the
international Exposition held on San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island
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1939
Fox
75 min.
Sidney Toler
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Chan goes to Paris
for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder
of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy. |
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1940
Fox
75 min.
Sidney Toler
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On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese
detective encounters four murders while trying to solve the murder of a
Scotland Yard friend. |
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1940
Fox
75 min.
Sidney Toler
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In a wax museum run
by a demented doctor, criminals faces are altered with plastic surgery. It is
here a killer Charlie helped convict takes refuge. |
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1940
Fox
67 min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an
espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy
fleet on its way to the Pacific. |
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1940
Fox
65 min.
Sidney Toler
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When Charlie
attends a police convention in New York he learns of sabotage slowing down
production in aircraft plants. This leads to the murder of an old
friend.
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1941
Fox
60 min.
Sidney Toler
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Just as elderly Miss Nodbury is ready to leave on a treasure hunt for
a family fortune she is scared to death by the ghost of a pirate ancestor.
Charlie Chan solves the murder aboard the Suva Star. |
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1941
Fox
61 min.
Sidney Toler
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A pair of murders
in Rio de Janiero leads the local police to call the famed detective. Charlie
is puzzled, at first, when it appears that one of the murderers is killed by
the first victim's widow. |
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1942
Fox
62 min.
Sidney Toler
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Paul Manderley lives in an isolated mansion in the Mojave Desert.
When a guest suddenly collapses, Charlie Chan is invited to stay. |
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1944
Monogram
63
min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie Chan is an
agent of the U.S. government assigned to investigate the mysterious death of an
inventor.
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1944
Monogram
65
min.
Sidney Toler
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Thomas Manning, businessman and chess expert, is shot in a locked
room and dies clutching a chess piece. Police are baffled. Six months later,
victim's daughter Leah, stung by a scurrilous book about the case, enlists the
aid of Charlie.
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1944
Monogram
67 min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie searches
for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of
spiritualists and occultists.
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1945
Monogram
64
min.
Sidney Toler |
Charlie is on the trail of a radium theft. Cobras are used as murder
weapons.
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1945
Monogram
64
min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie Chan and a
host of suspects are close at hand for three murders.
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1945
Monogram
65
min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie uncovers the theft of goverment radar secrets. |
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1945
Monogram
66 min.
Sidney Toler
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Eccentric scientist
Harper lives in a spooky mansion When Harper seems to be murdered, Charlie Chan
tries to answer such questions as Where's the body? How can a dead man walk?
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1946
Monogram
61
min.
Sidney Toler
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This film marked Victor Sen Yung's return to the Chan series. His
last film with Toler was Castle in the Desert.
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1946
Monogram
64
min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie Chan tries
to find who committed a murder aboard a cruise ship. This is another of the
better Monogram films. Set in the South Seas, it has great atmosphere and
Willie Best and Sen Yung provide perfect comic relief!
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1946
Monogram
61 min.
Sidney Toler
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Charlie investigates a murder which leads him to a maximum security
prison.
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1947
Monogram
68
min.
Sidney Toler
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This film, set on
Malibu Beach, was, sadly, Sidney Toler's last. It was also released as "Murder
at Malibu Beach."
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1947
Monogram
68
min.
Roland Winters
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Directed by William 'One Take' Beaudine
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1948
Monogram
64
min.
Roland Winters |
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1948
Monogram
56
min.
Roland Winters |
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's
finger prints show up at all three murder sites.
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1948
Monogram
69
min.
Roland Winters
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1948
Monogram
68
min.
Roland Winters
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1949
Monogram
64
min.
Roland Winters
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This film brought
the Charlie Chan series to a close. |
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