Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
Overview
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.
Cast
Warner Oland
Charlie Chan
Keye Luke
Lee Chan
Joan Marsh
Joan Wendall, Photographer
J. Edward Bromberg
Murdock, Editor New York Bulletin
Douglas Fowley
Johnny Burke
Harold Huber
Chief Inspector James Nelson NYPD
Donald Woods
Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin
Louise Henry
Billie Bronson
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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....
