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Dead Men Tell

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Dead Men Tell
Movie poster
Directed byHarry Lachman
Written byEarl Derr Biggers (characters)
John Larkin
Produced byRalph Dietrich
Walter Morosco
StarringSidney Toler
Sheila Ryan
Victor Sen Yung
CinematographyCharles G. Clarke
Edited byHarry Reynolds
Music byEmil Newman
Production
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Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox
Release date
  • March 28, 1941 (1941-03-28)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dead Men Tell is a 1941 American mystery film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan and Victor Sen Yung. Toler played Charlie Chan in 22 feature films, beginning with Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and ending with The Trap (1946). The first 11 Charlie Chan films with Toler were produced by 20th Century Fox Studios, thereafter sold to Monogram Pictures.[1]

The interiors for Dead Men Tell were filmed in 1941 at Fox Studios in Hollywood. Exterior shots were filmed on the 20th Century Fox backlot, which is now Century City.

Plot

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Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on Cocos Island, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she gave to some of the passengers whom she has invited, but tells no one who they are. When she is given a fright and succumbs to her heart disease, Chan must clear up the mystery while the ship is still at the dock.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Sidney Toler". IMDb.
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