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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

  • Status: Released
  • 31-08-1939
  • Runtime: 72 min
  • Score: 6.6
  • Vote count: 26

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.

Sidney Toler

Charlie Chan

Victor Sen Yung

Jimmy Chan

Cesar Romero

Fred Rhadini

Douglas Fowley

Peter Lewis

Pauline Moore

Eve Cairo

Donald MacBride

Deputy Police Chief J.J. Kilvaine

Douglass Dumbrille

Stewart Salsbury, alias Thomas Gregory

Trevor Bardette

Dr. Zodiac's Servant

Gerald Mohr

Dr. Zodiac (in disguise)

Wally Vernon

Elmer

June Gale

Myra Rhadini

Billie Seward

Mrs. Bessie Sibley

Sally Blane

Stella Essex

Charles Halton

Uncle Redley

Louis Jean Heydt

Paul Essex

Jack Chefe

Audience Member

Heinie Conklin

First Taxicab Driver

Sayre Dearing

Audience Member

Bud Geary

Cop at Station House

Harold Goodwin

Airplane Steward

Edith Hallor

Toots - Stout Woman

Fred Kelsey

Detective - in Cab and at Theatre

Al Kikume

Waiter at Hawaiian Village

Kay Linaker

Egyptian Princess Ectoplasm

Hank Mann

Second Taxicab Driver

Margaret Mann

Airplane Passenger

Frank Meredith

Second Detective

Harold Miller

Audience Member

Bruce Mitchell

Police Desk Sergeant

Hans Moebus

Audience Member

Bert Moorhouse

Audience Member

David Newell

Audience Member

Imboden Parrish

Plane Passenger

Tom Quinn

Man at Landing Gate

Arthur Rankin

Airways Official

Fred Rapport

Audience Member

Gloria Roy

Plane Passenger

Jeffrey Sayre

Man at Landing Gate

Harry Strang

Taxicab Dispatcher

Charles Tannen

Plane Passenger

Edwin Tuttle

Audience Member

John Elliott

Doctor - Backstage

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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.