Charlie Chan in Honolulu
A lighthearted 1930s mystery-comedy where a son's impersonation of his famous detective father leads to comedic complications while investigating a shipboard murder.
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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