Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
DEATH AFLOAT...striking swiftly. suddenly...leaving on each strangled victim a calling card of crimson coin...thirty pieces of silver!
A mid-century mystery-thriller aboard a cruise ship that balances procedural detective work with period comedy and pulp melodrama.
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Essence
Ensemble
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
Leo G. Carroll
Professor Gordon
Lionel Atwill
Dr. Suderman
Robert Lowery
Dick Kenyon
Marjorie Weaver
Paula Drake
Cora Witherspoon
Susie Watson
Don Beddoe
Frederick Ross
Leonard Mudie
Gerald Pendleton
Charles Middleton
Jeremiah Walters
Claire Du Brey
Sarah Walters
James Burke
Wilkie, house detective
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