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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Charlie Chan san francisco magician murder mystery detective Airplane writer

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

Directed by Norman Foster

Mystery | Suspense

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.

Rated NR | Length 72 minutes

Actors

Sidney Toler | Victor Sen Yung | Cesar Romero | Douglas Fowley | Pauline Moore | Donald MacBride | Douglass Dumbrille | Trevor Bardette | Gerald Mohr | Wally Vernon | June Gale | Billie Seward | Sally Blane | Charles Halton | Louis Jean Heydt | Jack Chefe | Heinie Conklin | Sayre Dearing | Bud Geary | Harold Goodwin | Edith Hallor | Fred Kelsey | Al Kikume | Kay Linaker | Hank Mann | Margaret Mann | Frank Meredith | Harold Miller | Bruce Mitchell | Hans Moebus | Bert Moorhouse | David Newell | Imboden Parrish | Tom Quinn | Arthur Rankin | Fred Rapport | Gloria Roy | Jeffrey Sayre | Harry Strang | Charles Tannen | Edwin Tuttle | John Elliott

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This is another really good Sidney Toler Chan flick. A better title might have been Charlie Chan and the Mysterious Doctor Zodiac. However, after viewing the extra features I totally understand why they went with Treasure Island. I didn’t know anything about this manmade island created in the Bay of SF but the featurette about it was nice to watch. Basically a Worlds Fair that was short lived due to the inevitable war. Sad that it was demolished bc of the war. Would be neat to see remnants of it. Very cool to watch a film and also learn something new. Would be wild if the Treasure Island survived and still existed today.

As for the movie, there a few holes in the story around the motive of the murders and Doctor Zodiac. Always find it amusing when really none of that is explained.

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