Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
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Lester Cole
Marion Orth
Heather Angel
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| Charlie Chan's Greatest Case | |
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| Directed by | Hamilton MacFadden |
| Written by | Earl Derr Biggers (novel) Lester Cole Marion Orth |
| Starring | Warner Oland Heather Angel |
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| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case is a 1933 American pre-Code murder mystery film starring Warner Oland as the Oriental detective Charlie Chan. It was based on the Earl Derr Biggers novel The House Without a Key (1925).
Oland made a series of Charlie Chan films; along with three others, this one is considered to be a lost film.[citation needed]
In Honolulu's Waikiki, two brothers, Dan and Amos Winterslip have had a decades-long feud which worsens when Dan announces his engagement to a scandalous, younger woman. When Dan is found murdered in his beachside home, Charlie Chan is called on to investigate. As the list of suspects grows, the case becomes increasingly dangerous for both Charlie Chan and Dan’s nephew, John Quincy, who seeks to find his uncle’s killer.[1]
Cast
- Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Heather Angel as Carlotta Eagan
- Roger Imhof as The Beachcomber
- John Warburton as John Quincy Winterslip
- Walter Byron as Henry Jennison
- Ivan F. Simpson as Brade
- Virginia Cherrill as Barbara Winterslip
- Francis Ford as Captain Hallett
- Robert Warwick as Dan Winterslip
- Frank McGlynn Sr. as Amos Winterslip
- Clara Blandick as Minerva Winterslip
- Claude King as Capt. Arthur Cope
- William Stack as James Eagan
- Gloria Roy as Arlene Compton
- Cornelius Keefe as Steve Letherbee
- Frances Chan as Youngest Chan Daughter
