Charlie Chan na Macumba (1944)
Chan stalks a fiendish murderer!
Gênero : Comédia, Crime, Mistério, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 7M
Director : Phil Rosen
Escritor : George Callahan
Sinopse
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.
Cinco detetives, incluindo Sam Diamond, Sidney Wange Jessica Marbles, são convidados para um jantar no castelo do misterioso Lionel Twain. Lá, eles são informados de que Twain planeja um assassinato no castelo e sem solução à meia-noite. Também, para aquele que decifrar o homicídio, haverá um pagamento de 1 milhão de dólares. Quando o mordomo cego de Twain morre bem antes da meia- noite, os riscos sobem para esses detetives famosos.
O Detetive Sam Spade e seu parceiro Miles Archer são procurados por uma mulher misteriosa que os contrata para seguir um homem a quem ela acusa de ter fugido com sua irmã. Miles Archer e o homem são assassinados, e a partir daí, Sam Spade, suspeito pelo assassinato de Archer, se vê envolvido com uma série de figuras misteriosas.
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
After receiving congratulations from the Home Secretary for solving his most recent case, Charlie is sought out by Pamela Gray, a beautiful but desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. She is so convinced of his innocence that she becomes distraught when she overhears Neil Howard, her brother's lawyer and her fiancee, confide to the detective his belief in his client's guilt. Angered at this disclosure, she returns his ring and breaks off the engagement. Although the execution will take place in 65 hours, Charlie pledges to expose the murderer. All potential suspects are reassembled in the country mansion of family friend Geoffrey Richmond, where the murder took place, as Charlie tries to expose the real murderer before time runs out.
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
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.
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 Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Yeung Ching, nascido em uma família rica, é uma exemplar policial. O pai dela quer se casar com uma bela mulher chamada Wai. Yeung suspeita que sua futura madastra só está interessada na riqueza de sua família. Secretamente, Yeung inicia uma investigação contra Wai. No entanto, um detetive particular, Charlie Chan, se intromete e complica a situação.
Um navio afunda-se fora de Honolulu e Allen Colby, herdeiro de milhões, é dado como morto... mas o detetive Charlie Chan não tem tanta certeza e voa para San Francisco para investigar mais profundamente após encontrar um diário. De alguma forma, Colby reaparece... mas é assassinado antes que possa reivindicar sua herança. Mais eventos giram em torno da espiritualista Sra. Lowell, sua família de suspeitos e a mansão assustadora de Colby.
A decadência da família Pyncheon é simbolizada no aspecto sombrio de sua mansão, em cujas fundações estão a ganância, a traição e a arrogância. Persistirá o mal, como terrível maldição, enquanto sobreviverem os últimos Pyncheons.
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.
Policial que prefere trabalhar sozinho e que tem um fraco por mulheres bonitas, tem seu melhor amigo assassinado e parte para a vingança, deixando sua secretária e o chefe de polícia desesperados. Filme que deu origem ao seriado 'Mike Hammer'.
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
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.
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.
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
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 Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.