Dead Men Tell (1941)

Regisseur:

Harry Lachman

Drehbuchautoren:

Earl Derr Biggers (characters)
John Larkin (writer)

Premierendatum:

28. März 1941 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery

Plot:

Just as elderly Miss Nodbury is ready to leave on a treasure hunt for a family fortune she is scared to death by the ghost of a pirate ancestor...

Plot Keywords:

Charlie Chan | Sequel

Nutzerkommentare:

Ghosts and Red Herrings

Besetzung

Sidney Toler	...	Charlie Chan
Sheila Ryan	...	Kate Ransome
Robert Weldon	...	Steve Daniels
Victor Sen Yung	...	Jimmy Chan (#2 son) (as Sen Yung)
Donald Douglas	...	Jed Thomasson (as Don Douglas)
Kay Aldridge	...	Laura Thursday (as Katharine Aldridge)
Paul McGrath	...	Charles Thursday aka Mr. Parks
George Reeves	...	Bill Lydig
Truman Bradley	...	Capt. Kane of the Suva Star
Ethel Griffies	...	Miss Patience Nodbury
Lenita Lane	...	Dr. Anne Bonney
Milton Parsons	...	Gene LaFarge

Alternativ:

Charlie Chan auf dem Schatzsucherschiff (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

61 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Altersfreigabe:

USA:Approved

Firma:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Gefolgt von Black Magic (1944)

Ghosts and Red Herrings

An agreeable entry in the Charlie Chan series, this is an extremely well-made little movie, directed by Harry Lachman, and featuring some striking shots of an old pirate vessel in port and a tough waterfront dive. It's all cliches, nicely cobbled together, and served up with good humor by actors who don't seem to be taking themselves too seriously. Sidney Toler makes an agreeably phlegmatic and dignified Chan; while Sen Yung's Number Two Son gets into his usual hot water,--in this case actually sea water--as he tries to bail his old man out. Ethel Griffies is splendid as the haunted (and hunted) Mrs. Nodbury, Truman Bradley sinister as a pipe-smoking captain, George Reeves breezy as a suspect. I especially liked the quietly neurasethenic performance of Milton Parsons as a Boston Brahmin on vacation, trying to overcome a recent nervous breakdown. He picked one hell of a vacation spot! Highly recommended for fans of maritime mysteries, treasure maps, talking parrots and nocturnal strolls around creaking, fogbound wharves.