Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
1h 8m | PG-13
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
Director: Eugene Forde
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Video: 720p
Cast
Warner Oland
as Charlie Chan
Keye Luke
as Lee Chan
Joan Marsh
as Joan Wendall, Photographer
J. Edward Bromberg
as Murdock, Editor New York Bulletin
Douglas Fowley
as Johnny Burke
Harold Huber
as Chief Inspector James Nelson NYPD
Reviews
Our eponymous sleuth and No.1 son "Lee" (Keye Luke) are returning to the United States when a fellow passenger on their liner plants something in his luggage. Safely home, she tries to retrieve it from his hotel but is soon herself the subject of a police murder investigation. What was she trying to smuggle in, and why did someone kill her for it? Oland and Luke are on fine form in this light-hearted, well paced, mystery with loads of red herrings and strong supporting efforts from J Edward Bromberg as newspaper editor "Murdock"; Harold Huber ("Nelson") the policeman leading the hunt as well as the engaging double act of newspaper folks "Patten" (Donald Woods) and snapper "Joan" (Joan Marsh) and gangster-type "Burke" (Douglas Fowley) all keeping guessing for an hour. Nothing to do with musical theatre....