20th Century Fox
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
DEATH AFLOAT...striking swiftly. suddenly...leaving on each strangled victim a calling card of crimson coin...thirty pieces of silver!
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
- Original title
- Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 23, 2022 · via TMDB
When his British pal "Insp. Shaw" is killed, our eponymous sleuth must join the passengers on a cruise to find the culprit not just of this, but of another murder too! It has a sort of "Murder on the Orient Express" feeling to it, this, as the fellow travellers are introduced to us, and to "Mr. Chan" (Sydney Toler) and we very quickly ascertain that they are a pretty disparate bunch any of whom might, just, be responsible. It helps the mystery that the there is no obvious character - neither by virtue of their role or their billing - to give it away. It's down to some shrewd detective work from "Chan", aided by his rather hapless, but well meaning No 2 son "Jimmy" (a lively effort from Victor Sen Yung) to work it out. Lionel Atwill, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Middleton and an engagingly ditzy Cora Witherspoon ("Susie") all help keep us guessing until quite an exciting denouement with plenty of red herrings and cleverly staged machinations to trap our strangler. The Confucian-style expressions grate after a while, they are just too contrived - but there is lots going on here to kill 75 minutes well.
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Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Leo G. Carroll
Professor Gordon
Lionel Atwill
Dr. Suderman
Robert Lowery
Dick Kenyon
Marjorie Weaver
Paula Drake
Cora Witherspoon
Susie Watson
Don Beddoe
Frederick Ross
Leonard Mudie
Gerald Pendleton
Charles Middleton
Jeremiah Walters
Claire Du Brey
Sarah Walters
James Burke
Wilkie, house detective
Richard Keene
Buttons, ship's steward
Harry Strang
Seaman Guarding Pendleton
Harlan Briggs
San Francisco Coroner
Layne Tom Jr.
Willie Chan
C. Montague Shaw
Inspector Duff
Cliff Clark
Lieutenant Wilson
Kay Linaker
Linda Pendleton
Paul McVey
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Wade Boteler
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Emmett Vogan
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John Dilson
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J. Anthony Hughes
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Walter Miller
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Al Kikume
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Virgil Miller
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