Charlie Chan in Honolulu is a 1939 American film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. The film is the first appearance of both Toler as Chan and Victor Sen Yung as "number two son" Jimmy.
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Directed by | H. Bruce Humberstone |
Written by | Charles S. Belden |
Produced by | John Stone |
Starring | Sidney Toler Phyllis Brooks Victor Sen Yung |
Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
Edited by | Nick DeMaggio |
Music by | Samuel Kaylin |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The film opens with Detective Chan rushing to the hospital to be with his daughter as she prepares to give birth to his first grandchild. While Charlie Chan waits at the hospital, his "number two" son Jimmy intercepts a message intended for Charlie about a murder on board the freighter Susan B. Jennings.
The freighter is on its way from Shanghai to Honolulu under the leadership of Captain Johnson (Robert Barrat). Jimmy wants to prove his investigative skills to his father and so boards the Jennings pretending to be Charlie Chan, with his younger brother Tommy (Layne Tom Jr.) in tow. The ruse doesn't last long and soon the real Chan arrives on board, interrogating a motley assortment of crooks, heiresses and crew as he works to solve a crime whose only witness is secretary Judy Haynes (Phyllis Brooks).
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