Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Production
1939 Treasure Island World's Fair sets are gorgeously weird
Acting
Sidney Toler's dry wit cuts through the mystical nonsense
Practical Effects
Actual stage magic performed, not faked for camera
Director
Norman Foster
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Cesar Romero
Fred Rhadini
Douglas Fowley
Peter Lewis
Pauline Moore
Eve Cairo
Donald MacBride
Deputy Police Chief J.J. Kilvaine
Douglass Dumbrille
Stewart Salsbury, alias Thomas Gregory
Trevor Bardette
Dr. Zodiac's Servant
Gerald Mohr
Dr. Zodiac (in disguise)
Wally Vernon
Elmer
June Gale
Myra Rhadini
Billie Seward
Mrs. Bessie Sibley
Sally Blane
Stella Essex
Charles Halton
Uncle Redley
Louis Jean Heydt
Paul Essex
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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