Charlie Chan at the Opera
A fiendish killer lurks at the opera! Weird! Thrilling! The Master Minds of Crime Match Wits Against Each Other!
Genres
Overview
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
68 min
Release Date
1936-12-04
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
34
Vote Average
6.8
Warner Oland
Charlie Chan
Boris Karloff
Gravelle
Keye Luke
Lee Chan
William Demarest
Sergeant Kelly
Guy Usher
Inspector Regan
Margaret Irving
Mme. Lilli Rochelle
Gregory Gaye
Enrico Borelli
Nedda Harrigan
Mme. Lucretia Borelli
Frank Conroy
Mr. Whitely
Charlotte Henry
Mlle. Kitty
Thomas Beck
Phil Childers
Maurice Cass
Mr. Arnold
Tom McGuire
Pop Morris - Stage Doorman
Marc Lawrence
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Joan Woodbury
Dancer in Opera (uncredited)
William Bailey
Detective (uncredited)
Charles Bancroft
Soldier in Opera (uncredited)
John Bleifer
Murdered Orderly (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Backstage Cop Who Shoots Gravelle (uncredited)
Myrta Bonillas
Villager in Opera (uncredited)
Raymond Brown
Guard (uncredited)
Carita Crawford
Dancer in Opera (uncredited)
Patrick Cunning
Villager in Opera (uncredited)
Zari Elmassian
Mme. Rochelle (singing voice) (uncredited)
Frank Fanning
Cop (uncredited)
Jim Farley
Detective (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
Opera Spectator (uncredited)
Larry Fisher
Cop (uncredited)
Benson Fong
Opera Supernumerary (uncredited)
J. C. Fowler
Opera Spectator (uncredited)
Otto Fries
Innkeeper (uncredited)
Bud Geary
Cop (uncredited)
Milton Gowman
Villager in Opera (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Villager in Opera (uncredited)
Harrison Greene
Detective (uncredited)
Julia Griffith
Opera Spectator (uncredited)
6.8
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5.4
The Climax
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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7.2
Murder by Death
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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6.5
Charlie Chan's Chance
Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
1932-01-24 | en
8.0
Charlie Chan's Courage
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
1934-07-06 | en
6.0
Birth
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
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5.4
Curse of the Black Cat
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
1977-05-09 | es
6.8
Castle in the Desert
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
1942-02-02 | en
6.2
Charlie Chan at the Circus
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
1936-03-27 | en
7.1
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
1936-08-07 | en
6.6
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
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.
1939-08-31 | en
6.4
City in Darkness
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
1939-11-15 | en
6.9
Charlie Chan in Egypt
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
1935-06-04 | en
6.8
Charlie Chan in London
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
1934-09-12 | en
6.4
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
1938-12-30 | en
6.5
Charlie Chan in Paris
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
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6.2
Charlie Chan in Reno
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
1939-06-16 | en
6.6
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
1935-10-11 | en
6.8
Charlie Chan's Secret
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
1936-01-10 | en
6.7
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
1937-05-21 | en