Connection
Charlie Chan in London is a american film of genre Drama directed by Eugene Forde released in USA on 12 september 1934 with Warner Oland
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 september 1934
Length 1h19
Directed by Eugene Forde
OriginUSA
Themes Children's films
Rating68%
Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. The film stars Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. This is the sixth film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as the detective, and the second not to be lost, after The Black Camel (1931).
Robert Altman's film Gosford Park, set in 1932, features a (fictional) character who produces the Chan films for Fox and claims to be in England doing research for Charlie Chan in London.
Synopsis
When a young English man is convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, his sister and her fiance, convinced of his innocence, ask visiting detective Charlie Chan to investigate the crime and find the real murderer. In order to solve the mystery, he must visit a lavish country manor house in England where the suspects vary from the housekeeper to a lawyer. Events soon indicate that the murderer is still actively trying to avoid capture, but Charlie Chan must set a trap to reveal the criminal's identity.Actors
Warner Oland
(Charlie Chan)
Ray Milland
(Neil Howard)
Mona Barrie
(Lady Mary Bristol)
Douglas Walton
(Hugh Gray)
Alan Mowbray
(Geoffrey Richmond)
Charlie Chan
(1926)
(1927)
(1929)
(1931)
(1931)
(1932)
(1933)
(1934)
(1934)
(1935)
(1935)
(1935)
(1936)
(1936)
(1936)
(1937)
(1937)
(1937)
(1937)
(1938)
(1939)
(1939)
(1939)
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
(1941)
(1941)
(1942)
(1944)
(1944)
(1944)
(1945)
(1945)
(1945)
(1945)
(1946)
(1946)
(1946)
(1946)
(1947)
(1948)
(1948)
(1948)
(1948)
(1949)
(1973)
(1981)Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Charlie Chan in London
There are 211 films with the same actors, 30 films with the same director, 93528 with the same cinematographic genres (including 404 with exactly the same 4 genres than Charlie Chan in London), 5112 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Charlie Chan in London, you will probably like those similar films :
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Donald Woods, Paul Harvey, Murray Kinnell, Harvey Clark, DeWitt Jennings
Rating70%
Chan is hired to transport a pearl necklace. When his employer is murdered, he sets out to unmask the killer.
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Don Beddoe
Rating70%
The famed detective seeks to unmask a killer on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
Dressed to Kill (1941)
, 1h20Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, William Demarest, Virginia Brissac, Henry Daniell
Rating63%
Private investigator Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is just about to marry his sweetheart, singer Joanne La Marr (Mary Beth Hughes). On their wedding day he meets up with Joanne at the Hotel du Nord where she is staying, but as they are about to leave together, Michael hears a woman screaming from one of the rooms.
, 1h17Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel, Elizabeth Patterson, Donald MacBride
Rating65%
A private detective is hired to act as a guardian to a wealthy man's daughter, who has been gambling away her allowance at the racetrack and associating with shady characters in a casino. However, he quickly finds himself embroiled in a murder case and has to stay one step ahead of the police while he attempts to solve it.
Sleepers West (1941)
, 1h14Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy, Don Costello
Rating65%
Shadowed by persistent girl reporter Kay Bentley (Lynn Bari), private detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) tries his best to secretly escort murder-trial witness Helen Carlson (Mary Beth Hughes) by train from Denver to San Francisco.
Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)
, 1h11Directed by James Tinling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Jon Hall, Irene Hervey, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke, David Torrence
Rating68%
Charlie Chan arrives in Shanghai at the behest of the U.S. government to help stop an opium smuggling ring. He receives a warning aboard ship not to stop in Shanghai. He is met by his Number One Son, Lee Chan, as well as Philip Nash and his fianceé, Diana Woodland. Charlie is the guest of honor at a banquet held that evening, hosted by Sir Stanley Woodland (David Torrence in an uncredited role). When Sir Stanley opens a box to give a handwritten scroll to Charlie, he is shot and killed by a gun inside the booby-trapped box. Charlie meets with Colonel Watkins, the commissioner of police, and agrees to investigate the crime. The next day, American FBI man James Andrews arrives in Shanghai, accompanied by his valet, Forrest (Gladden James in an uncredited role). That night, an assassin shoots what seems to be a sleeping Charlie Chan in bed. But Charlie, suspecting another attempt on his life, rigged a dummy and escaped death.
The Black Camel (1931)
, 1h7Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Victor Varconi, Dorothy Revier, Murray Kinnell
Rating65%
Movie star Shelah Fayne is making a picture on location in Honolulu, Hawaii. She summons mystic adviser Tarneverro from Hollywood to help her decide whether to marry wealthy Alan Jaynes, a man she has only known for a week. Her friend Julie O'Neil worries, however, that the famous psychic has too much influence over her. Meanwhile, Julie has fallen in love herself with local publicity director Jimmy Bradshaw.
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
, 1h13Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Rita Hayworth, Patricia Paterson, Nigel De Brulier, Thomas Beck, Jameson Thomas
Rating66%
Charlie Chan is brought in when an archaeologist disappears while excavating ancient art treasures in Egypt. Charlie must sort out the stories of the archaeological team, deal with the crazed son of the missing scientist, learn why priceless treasures are falling into the hands of private collectors, and battle many seemingly supernatural events.
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
, 1h12Directed by Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, John Miljan, John Qualen, Keye Luke
Rating70%
Chan is on his way back from completing the London case—they always mentioned the previous case—to go on "vacation" to Paris, but this is just a way to make people think that he is innocently there. He is on a case for some London bankers and customers who say that some bonds from the Lamartine Bank in Paris are forged, so they hired Chan to solve the case. The suspects Chan meets include; Max Corday, a local artist who wants to reap the financial rewards of fame; Albert Dufresne, the assistant to the bank president who is living beyond his means; Henri Latouche, a bank officer who has access to financial bank records; Yvette Lamartine, the daughter of the bank president who is determined to recover old love letters from the bank vault; and Marcel Xavier, a crippled and blind beggar and "crazed World War I veteran who thinks that the bank is cheating on him and wants his money.
Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
, 1h8Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh, J. Edward Bromberg, Douglas Fowley, Harold Huber
Rating69%
While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure (Charlie Chan at the Olympics), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. After the liner docks, Chan and Lee are met at the pier by Inspector Nelson and two rival reporters, Joan Wendall and Speed Patton. Bille, having left the country hurriedly a year ago when sought as a material witness in a political scandal, has returned to "blow the lid off the town." She follows the Chans to their hotel and attempts to regain her package from the trunk, only to be interrupted by Lee. She then goes to the "Hottentot Club", where "candid-camera night" is in full progress, followed by Lee. Already present are Joan and Speed. Billie is mysteriously murdered and Charlie is summoned from a police banquet in his honor. Present in the room with the body are club manager Johnny Burke; club dancer and Burke's girl-friend Marie Collins and the two reporters. While seeking a motive for the murder, a second killing is discovered in Charlie's hotel room, the package is missing from Charlie's trunk and it is realized that it must have contained her diary. Charlie neatly puts together a few scattered clues and names as the killer.