The strange case of murder by magic!
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.
- 6.6
- 1939
- Released
- 1h 12m
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 PassengerFrank Meredith
Second Detective
Harold Miller
Audience MemberBruce Mitchell
Police Desk SergeantHans Moebus
Audience MemberBert Moorhouse
Audience Member
David Newell
Audience MemberImboden Parrish
Plane PassengerTom Quinn
Man at Landing Gate
Arthur Rankin
Airways OfficialFred Rapport
Audience MemberGloria Roy
Plane Passenger
Jeffrey Sayre
Man at Landing Gate
Harry Strang
Taxicab Dispatcher
Charles Tannen
Plane PassengerEdwin Tuttle
Audience Member
John Elliott
Doctor - BackstageReleased
en
- #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
Reviews
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 mysteriou