Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933) is an American pre-Code murder mystery film starring Warner Oland as the Oriental detective Charlie Chan. It was based on the Earl Derr Biggers novel The House Without a Key (1925).

Oland made a series of Charlie Chan films; along with three others, this one is considered to be a lost film.

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

Reception

The New York Times reviewer wrote, "As far as the mystery of these particular murders is concerned it is not difficult for the audience to decide on the identity of the slayer, but the manner in which Chan makes his deductions is always interesting."

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

Cast

Warner Oland as Charlie Chan

Heather Angel as Carlotta Eagan

Roger Imhof as The Beachcomber

John Warburton as John Quincy Winterslip

Walter Byron as Henry Jennison

Ivan F. Simpson as Brade

Virginia Cherrill as Barbara Winterslip

Francis Ford as Captain Hallett

Robert Warwick as Dan Winterslip

Frank McGlynn Sr. as Amos Winterslip

Clara Blandick as Minerva Winterslip

Claude King as Capt. Arthur Cope

William Stack as James Eagan

Gloria Roy as Arlene Compton

Cornelius Keefe as Steve Letherbee

Frances Chan as Youngest Chan Daughter

References

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1933 films

Fox Film films

American black-and-white films

Films set in Hawaii

Films directed by Hamilton MacFadden

Lost American films

1933 mystery films

Films based on American novels

Films based on mystery novels

American mystery films

1933 lost films

1930s American films

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case