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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

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Wikipedia article




'Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo' is a 1937 American movie directed by Eugene Forde. The main character is Charlie Chan, a Chinese-Hawaiian detective. This was the sixteenth and final Charlie Chan film with Warner Oland portraying Chan. The film features Keye Luke as Charlie's son Lee and character actor Harold Huber as a French police inspector.

Warner Oland contracted bronchial pneumonia during his visit to Sweden and died there on August 6, 1938, at age 57. The series continued at Fox for another eleven entries with Sidney Toler. In 1942 Fox sold it to Monogram Pictures, and it continued on even after Toler's death in 1947 with Roland Winters in the role through six films into 1949.

Plot summary



Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder.

The messenger for millionaire Victor Karnoff is ambushed and murdered, and $200,000.00 worth of bonds are missing. The taxicab of

the two Chans passes the crime scene, and they become involved, with the blessing of the local law Chief Joubert(Huber).

Later on, a bartender who was apparently attempting to blackmail the killer is also murdered, and the bonds found in his room.

But Chan notices that in order to make certain the bonds were discovered, their briefcase had been opened with a special key that very

few people had access to, and the bartender was not one of them.

Back at the Karnoff mansion, Chan exposes the killer, who had been embezzling in order to keep femme' fate Evelyn Grey(Field) in the

style to which she had become accustomed.



Cast



* Warner Oland as Charlie Chan

* Keye Luke as Lee Chan

* Virginia Field as Evelyn Grey

* Sidney Blackmer as Victor Karnoff

* Harold Huber as Chief of Police Jules Etienne Joubert

* Kay Linaker as Joan Karnoff

* Robert Kent as Gordon Chase

* Edward Raquello as Paul Savarin

* George Lynn as Al Rogers

* John Bleifer as Ludwig

* Eugene Borden as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

* Leo White as French Butler (uncredited)

References




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