“Aboard a treasure ship Chan battles his most elusive adversary... the ghost of a pirate 100 years dead!”
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
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Part of Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection
22 films
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Movie · 1938
Charlie Chan in Reno
Movie · 1939
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Movie · 1939
City in Darkness
Movie · 1939
Charlie Chan in Panama
Movie · 1940
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Movie · 1940
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Movie · 1940
Murder Over New York
Movie · 1940
Dead Men Tell
Movie · 1941
Charlie Chan in Rio
Movie · 1941
Castle in the Desert
Movie · 1942
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Movie · 1944
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Movie · 1944
Black Magic
Movie · 1944
The Jade Mask
Movie · 1945
The Scarlet Clue
Movie · 1945
The Red Dragon
Movie · 1945
The Shanghai Cobra
Movie · 1945
Dark Alibi
Movie · 1946
Shadows Over Chinatown
Movie · 1946
Dangerous Money
Movie · 1946
The Trap
Movie · 1946
Cast
24 people
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Known for
Our Relations
Blonde Venus
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Known for
Bonanza
The Letter
Robert Weldon
Steve Daniels
Also in
Second Fiddle
Sheila Ryan
Kate Ransome
Also in
Railroaded!
Great Guns
Truman Bradley
Capt. Kane of the Suva Star
Known for
Northwest Passage
Donald Douglas
Jed Thomasson
Known for
Gilda
Murder, My Sweet
Kay Aldridge
Laura Parks aka Laura Thursday
Also in
The Phantom of 42nd Street
Down Argentine Way
Paul McGrath
Charles Parks aka Charles Thursday
Known for
A Face in the Crowd
Advise & Consent
Lenita Lane
Dr. Anne Bonney
Known for
The Bat
The Mad Magician
Milton Parsons
Gene LaFarge
Known for
The Haunted Palace
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
George Reeves
Bill Lydig
Known for
Gone with the Wind
Adventures of Superman
Ethel Griffies
Miss Patience Nodbury
Known for
The Birds
Billy Liar
Harry Lachman Director · John Larkin Writer David Raksin Composer
United States release March 28, 1941 · Produced in United States · Production 20th Century Studios
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 28, 1941
Theatrical
United Kingdom
May 26, 1941 · Theatrical · (Rated A)
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