Charlie Chan (18) Charlie Chan On Broadway 1937
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028709/
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.
Director: Eugene Forde
Writers: Charles Belden(screen play), Jerome Cady(screen play), Art Arthur(original story)
Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh
Billie Bronson secretes a package in the trunk of Charlie Chan aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner. Chan and his number one son, Lee are met at the pier by Inspector Nelson and two rival reporters, Joan Wendall and Speed Patton. Bille, having left the country hurriedly a year ago when sought as a material witness in a political scandal, has returned to "blow the lid off the town." She follows the Chans to their hotel and attempts to regain her package from the trunk, only to be interrupted by Lee. She then goes to the "Hottentot Club", where "candid-camera night" is in full progress, followed by Lee. Already present are Joan and Speed. Billie is mysteriously murdered and Charlie is summoned from a police banquet in his honor. Present in the room with the body are club manager Johnny Burke; club dancer and Burke's girl-friend Marie Collins and the two reporters. While seeking a motive for the murder, a second killing is discovered in Charlie's hotel room, the package is missing from Charlie's trunk and it is realized that it must have contained her diary. Charlie neatly puts together a few scattered clues and names.......as the killer.
Trivia: When photographer Joan Wendell (Joan Marsh) first walks into the newspaper building, a man at a desk says "you just think you can". That man is horror icon Lon Chaney Jr, in an uncredited cameo.
Goofs: The policeman says that the fingerprints on the gun belong to a woman. It is now possible to tell the sex of the person who made a fingerprint but it was not when the movie was made.
Quotes:
Lee Chan, #1 Son: Gee, Pop, you sure missed a wonderful luncheon!
Charlie Chan: [at the shiprail suffering from seasickness] Contradiction, please. Not having eaten have missed nothing.
Lee Chan, #1 Son: I had turtle soup, chicken a la king, and three cream puffs. Then I had some ice cream.
Charlie Chan: Please stop! Mention of food more painful than surgeon's knife without anesthesia.
Lee Chan, #1 Son: Shall I get you medicine, Pop?
Charlie Chan: Good dose of land only effective medicine.
Crazy credits: Donald Woods is credited by his name in the main credits, but as "Donald Wood" in the end credits.
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