A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
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Allene Ray
Carry Egan
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Walter Miller
John Quincy Winterclip
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E.H. Calvert
Dan Winterclip
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Betty Caldwell
Barbara Winterclip
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A Wanderer of the West
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John Webb Dillion
Amos Winterslip
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The House of Hate
The Cisco Kid
Natalie Warfield
Minerva Winterclip
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The Red Rider
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Jack Pratt
James Egan
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Heart of Twenty
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William Bailey
Harry Jennison
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British Intelligence
The Three Musketeers
Frank Lackteen
Kaohla
Known for
The Sea Wolf
George Kuwa
Charlie Chan
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Saladine
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Movie Maniacs
Charles West
Bowker
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Spencer Gordon Bennet Director · Earl Derr Biggers Author Edward Snyder Cinematographer
United States release November 21, 1926 · Produced in United States
Production
Pathé Exchange
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · November 21, 1926
Theatrical
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