Friday, June 18, 2010

The Black Camel (1931)

Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, 20th Century Fox)

Earliest surviving Warner Oland Chan entry casts him as a Honolulu detective investigating the death of a Hollywood starlet. There is another, earlier murder that also plays a role in the mystery. Bela Lugosi is a prime suspect as the mysterious fortune teller Tarneverro. Favorite Charlie Chan aphorism: "Always harder to keep murder secret than for egg to bounce on sidewalk".

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