Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

★ 6.9 1h 17m IMDb
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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.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

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Cast

Sidney Toler
Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan Died 1947 · Warrensburg, Missouri, USA Sidney Toler (born Hooper G. Toler Jr.; April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright and theatre director. The second European-American actor to play the role of Charlie Chan...
Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan Died 1980 · San Francisco, California, USA Victor Sen Young (born Victor Cheung Young or Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1915 – body discovered November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Cha...
Leo G. Carroll
Leo G. Carroll as Professor Gordon Died 1972 · Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England, UK Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films - Rebecca, Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Stranger...
Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill as Dr. Suderman Died 1946 · Croydon, London, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lionel Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England. He studied architecture before his stage deb...
Robert Lowery
Robert Lowery as Dick Kenyon Died 1971 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA Robert Lowery (born Robert Lowery Hanks, October 17, 1913 – December 26, 1971) was an American motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in more than 70 films. He was the second actor t...
Marjorie Weaver
Marjorie Weaver as Paula Drake Died 1994 · Crossville, Tennessee, USA Marjorie Weaver (March 2, 1913 – October 1, 1994) was an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s..

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Jun 23, 2022
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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