20th Century Fox
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection
Dead Men Tell
Aboard a treasure ship Chan battles his most elusive adversary... the ghost of a pirate 100 years dead!
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
- Original title
- Dead Men Tell
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Mar 28, 2022 · via TMDB
Definately one of Sidney Toler's livelier outings as our super sleuth. This one sees him and best sidekick - No 2. son "Jimmy" (Victor Sen Yung) embroiled in some treasure hunting aboard a ship (that doesn't actually go anywhere). "Patience Nodbury" (Ethel Griffies) is the distant descendant of the infamous pirate "Black Hook" and she has a map! Someone is trying to pinch that from her, so she cunningly divides it into four sections and shares it amongst her fellow passengers. Just in time, too - for the apparition of a "Long John Silver" peg-legged character causes the old girl to keel over and the race is now on to find the missing pieces of the map and the murderous culprit before anyone else gets sent to Davy Jones' locker. This is fun to watch: plenty of action, daft distractions, hopeless cops and a well paced script make sure we whistle through the hour. Oh, and there's a "Captain Flint' flapping about, too!
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Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Sheila Ryan
Kate Ransome
Truman Bradley
Capt. Kane of the Suva Star
Donald Douglas
Jed Thomasson
Kay Aldridge
(as Katharine Aldridge) Laura Parks aka Laura Thursday
Paul McGrath
Charles Parks aka Charles Thursday
Lenita Lane
Dr. Anne Bonney
Milton Parsons
Gene LaFarge
George Reeves
Bill Lydig
Ethel Griffies
Miss Patience Nodbury
Lee Tung Foo
Ship's Cook (Uncredited)
Tim Ryan
Bartender (Uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Insp. Vessey (Uncredited)
Charles Tannen
Sailor with Girl (Uncredited)
Jimmy Aubrey
Dart Game Sailor (Uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Homicide Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
Policeman with Checklist at Debarking (Uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Detective (Uncredited)
Paul Kruger
Sailor in Saloon (Uncredited)
Charles G. Clarke
Director of Photography
Harry Lachman
Director
David Raksin
Original Music Composer
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