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On his flight to New York, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) meets a friend
(Frederick Worlock) working for the British Secret Service trailing a
mysterious international spy and saboteur named Narvo. Now nobody knows
what Narvo looks like, but Chan's friend thinks he has tracked down his
estranged wife ... and then Chan's friend turns up dead, murdered during a
dinner party full of suspicious characters. Chan decides to take the case
and starts by picking up where his deceased friend has left off, and in no
time at all he has traced down Narvo's wife Patricia (Marjorie Weaver) -
who of course proves to be totally innocent. In the meantime though, more
people, mostly guests at above dinnerparty, start dying, and with every
death, Chan seems to move back to square one in his investigations - which
doesn't bother him one bit. For the finale, Chan invites all suspects to
a testflight of a newly developed fighter jet which he is sure Narvo will
sabotage using poisoned gas (his favourite mode of killing), then locks
everybody inside the plane to see who loses his nerve to stop the gas
attack the very last second ... and it's an arrogant British gentleman
(Melville Cooper) whom nobody would have suspected because he's simply too
old to be Narvo. And he isn't, either, just his accomplice. The real Narvo
is a slimey businessman (John Sutton), who essentially gives himself away
when he tries to poison his accomplice before he can spill the beans. But
how come Patricia failed to recognize him? Following a car accident, he
has had massive plastic surgery that also affected his vocal chords ... Victor
Sen Yung can once again be seen as Charlie Chan's Number Two Son, Shemp
Howard of the Three
Stooges plays a fake fakir. A
very routine Charlie Chan-murder mystery with a bit of
espionage thrown in for a change, this film is - well, it's ok as long as
you watch it and don't think too much, and it moves along at a steady
enough pace to keep you from doing so. However, it's not among the best
films of the series, the plot is just a bit too tried-and-true and the
culprits are pulled out of the hat in the end instead of being found
through deduction, and the trademark humour of the series is a bit low in
this one as well. Still, an ok series movie at least, just don't expect
something special ...
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