Dead Men Tell
"Aboard a treasure ship Chan battles his most elusive adversary... the ghost of a pirate 100 years dead!"
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8

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
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Director

Harry Lachman
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Certification
NRCollection

Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection
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Reviews1
Definately one of Sidney Toler's livelier outings as our super sleuth. This one sees him and best sidekick - No 2. son "Jimmy" (Victor Sen Yung) embroiled in some treasure hunting aboard a ship (that doesn't actually go anywhere). "Patience Nodbury" (Ethel Griffies) is the distant descendant of the infamous pirate "Black Hook" and she has a map! Someone is trying to pinch that from her, so she cunningly divides it into four sections and shares it amongst her fellow passengers. Just in time, too - for the apparition of a "Long John Silver" peg-legged character causes the old girl to keel over and the race is now on to find the missing pieces of the map and the murderous culprit before anyone else gets sent to Davy Jones' locker. This is fun to watch: plenty of action, daft distractions, hopeless cops and a well paced script make sure we whistle through the hour. Oh, and there's a "Captain Flint' flapping about, too!
Mar 28, 2022





















