Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Directed byH. Bruce Humberstone
Written byCharles S. Belden
Produced byJohn Stone
StarringSidney Toler
Phyllis Brooks
Victor Sen Yung
CinematographyCharles G. Clarke
Edited byNick DeMaggio
Music bySamuel Kaylin
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • January 13, 1939 (1939-01-13)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Charlie Chan in Honolulu is a 1939 American mystery 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.

Plot

Detective Chan rushes 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).

Captain Johnson is eager to unload his cargo, which is mostly a shipment of "big cats" destined for the San Francisco Zoo.Deckhand Al Hogan is fond of walking his pet lion Oscar on the main deck, to nobody's pleasure. Even more of a frightening sight is eccentric scholar Dr.Cardigan, who claims to have kept a human brain alive in formaldehyde for 6 months and is always on the lookout for new subjects. It develops that a suitcase with $300,000.00 is missing, the cash being involved in a tug-o'-war divorce settlement between Mrs.Carol Wayne and the murder victim. Carol Wayne is found strangled to death in Judy Hayes' cabin, where the dead woman and Dr.Cardigan had argued shortly before. Criminal Johnny Mc Coy is allegedly being extradited to the USA in the custody of Detective Joe Arnold, but Chan exposes them as fellow criminals wanted for murder in Shanghai who were trying to sneak back into the USA.

Jimmy starts a "controlled fire" on the ship, hoping to panic the killer in grabbing the hidden money and making a run for it. Charlie's anger is cooled when Jimmy shoves him out of the way of an assassin's bullet. The handgun ends up in the hands of Hogan, who returns it to Chan.

Chan announces the murderer will be revealed by the fingerprints on the gun. The lights go out and the gun is missing when they come back on. But in stealing the gun, the guilty party triggered an infra-red camera that reveals his guilt beyond all doubt.

We close with the remaining passengers gathered around the ship-to-shore phone, listening to the coos and cries of Charlie Chan's first grandchild.

Cast


Rest of the Chan Family

  • Eugene Hoo as Chan Son
  • Frances Hoo as Chan Daughter
  • Hippie Hoo as Chan Son
  • Florence Ung as Ling Chan
  • Barbara Jean Wong as Chan Daughter (uncredited)
  • Grace Lem as Mama Chan

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