04 Dec 1936
Charlie Chan at the Opera
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
The House Without a Key
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
Top Billed Cast
Allene Ray Carry Egan
Walter Miller John Quincy Winterclip
E.H. Calvert Dan Winterclip
Betty Caldwell Barbara Winterclip
Natalie Warfield Minerva Winterclip
Jack Pratt James Egan
William Bailey Harry Jennison
Frank Lackteen Kaohla
George Kuwa Charlie Chan
Harry Semels Saladine
Charles West Bowker
John Cossar District Attorney
Scott Seaton Detective Hallett
Cliff Saum Kennedy
John Webb Dillion Shia Jung The Young Chinese Girl
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