Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
Genre: Mystery
Duration: 63 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Lynn Shores
Starst: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung and C. Henry Gordon
IMDb score:
7,0 (1.886)
Releasedate: 6 September 1940
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum plot
"FOUR TIMES IN 18 EERIE MINUTES CHARLIE CHAN FACES DEATH! -- Death from a poison dart! -- Death from a streaking bullet! -- Death from a gleaming dagger!"
A wax museum with statues of Jack the Ripper and the pirate Bluebeard, among others, is run by a demented doctor. Detective Charlie is invited to attend a radio broadcast at the museum when a criminal escapes from the nearby prison and decides to hide in the museum.
Actors and actresses
Charlie Chan
Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)
Dr. Cream
Steve McBirney
Henchman Grenock
Willie Fern, museum watchman
Lily Latimer
Mary Bolton
Mrs. Joe Rocke
Edwards, radio sound man
Reviews & comments
Roger Thornhill
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In my opinion, one of the more enjoyable Charlie Chan films, certainly in the Sidney Toler series, featuring the ever-reliable (or rather—judging by his appearance—unreliable) Marc Lawrence, a busy plot revolving around a murder from the past and a killing committed on the spot, and above all, the great location from the title. Naturally, all attention is focused on the master detective and his broken English, as well as his ambitious son, but the show is almost stolen by Charles Wagenheim as the night watchman Willie, who has entire conversations with "his" wax figures. Sidney Toler remains a somewhat colorless actor who handles Eastern aphorisms well but otherwise lacks charisma, so it is no wonder that his son mistakes him for a wax figure in the very last shot (and as a closing joke), but the film itself is busy and dynamic enough to entertain from start to finish.
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