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The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack

The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack

The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack
IMDb: 6.3
265

A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money
IMDb: 6.3
66

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Scarlet Clue

The Scarlet Clue

The Scarlet Clue
IMDb: 6.3
65

Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
IMDb: 6.2
63

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Murder Over New York

Murder Over New York

Murder Over New York
IMDb: 6.9
65

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise
IMDb: 7.1
77

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 in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama
IMDb: 7.1
66

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the…

Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno
IMDb: 7
70

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
City in Darkness

City in Darkness

City in Darkness
IMDb: 6.5
75

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even…

One Wild Night

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
IMDb: 6.5
72

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Three Godfathers

Three Godfathers

Three Godfathers
IMDb: 7.3
81

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they…

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Madame X

Madame X

Madame X
IMDb: 5.6
95

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son…

Genre: Drama
King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
IMDb: 6.2
57

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man
IMDb: 6.2
73

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha…

Genre: Comedy
Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu
IMDb: 6.7
67

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

White Savage

White Savage

White Savage
IMDb: 5.9
76

A native boy (Sabu) plays Cupid for a shark fisherman (Jon Hall) and a South Sea Islands princess (Maria Montez).

Is My Face Red?

Is My Face Red?

Is My Face Red?
IMDb: 6.1
66

Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from…

Dead Men Tell

Dead Men Tell

Dead Men Tell
IMDb: 6.9
61

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie’s search for a murderer on board…

Speak Easily

Speak Easily

Speak Easily
IMDb: 5.8
81

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Genre: Comedy
Double Wedding

Double Wedding

Double Wedding
IMDb: 6.9
87

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Law of the Pampas

Law of the Pampas

Law of the Pampas
IMDb: 6.7
72

Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.

Heritage of the Desert

Heritage of the Desert

Heritage of the Desert
IMDb: 6.7
73

John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab’s…

Genre: Western
The Trap

The Trap

The Trap
IMDb: 6.2
62

When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number…

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember
IMDb: 6.7
88

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find…

Gold Is Where You Find It

Gold Is Where You Find It

Gold Is Where You Find It
IMDb: 6.1
94

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870’s, which is flooding the area’s…

Spitfire

Spitfire

Spitfire
IMDb: 5.4
87

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.

Genre: Drama
Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus
IMDb: 7.1
93

American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at…

Genre: Drama
Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan
IMDb: 6.8
73

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask

Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask

Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
IMDb: 6.4
66

The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important…

The Shanghai Cobra

The Shanghai Cobra

The Shanghai Cobra
IMDb: 6.6
64

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
IMDb: 7.2
63

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic…

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
IMDb: 6.6
66

To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

The Red Dragon

The Red Dragon

The Red Dragon
IMDb: 6.6
64

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

Genre: Mystery
Castle in the Desert

Castle in the Desert

Castle in the Desert
IMDb: 7.2
62

Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a guest suddenly collapses, Charlie Chan is invited…

Charlie Chan in Rio

Charlie Chan in Rio

Charlie Chan in Rio
IMDb: 7
60

A pair of murders in Rio de Janeiro leads the local police to call the famed detective. Charlie is puzzled, at first, when it appears that one of the murderers…

Shadows Over Chinatown

Shadows Over Chinatown

Shadows Over Chinatown
IMDb: 6.7
64

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild
IMDb: 6.8
95

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a…

Our Relations

Our Relations

Our Relations
IMDb: 7.4
73

Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

Genre: Comedy
Dark Hazard

Dark Hazard

Dark Hazard
IMDb: 6.3
73

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him….

Genre: Drama
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
IMDb: 7.2
72

Charlie’s investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco’s Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller