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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Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Robert Weldon
Steve Daniels
Sheila Ryan
Kate Ransome
Truman Bradley
Capt. Kane of the Suva Star
Donald Douglas
Jed Thomasson
Kay Aldridge
(as Katharine Aldridge) Laura Parks aka Laura Thursday
Paul McGrath
Charles Parks aka Charles Thursday
Lenita Lane
Dr. Anne Bonney
Milton Parsons
Gene LaFarge
George Reeves
Bill Lydig
Ethel Griffies
Miss Patience Nodbury
Lee Tung Foo
Ship's Cook (Uncredited)
Tim Ryan
Bartender (Uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Insp. Vessey (Uncredited)
The Black Camel
1931 · 6.1
Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937 · 7.1
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937 · 6.3
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940 · 6.8
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940 · 7.7
Charlie Chan in Panama
1940 · 6.8
Murder Over New York
1940 · 6.2
Charlie Chan in Rio
1941 · 6.5
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
1944 · 6.1
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1944 · 6.5
