Charlie Chan's Chance


Charlie Chan's Chance is a 1932 American pre-Code murder mystery film, the third to star Warner Oland as detective Charlie Chan. It is based on the 1928 novel Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers, who also contributed to the film. The film is considered to be lost.

Plot

Charlie Chan is attending a police convention in New York City; he is an intended murder victim here, but avoids death by chance. To find his would-be-killer, Charlie must outguess police reps from both Scotland Yard and New [York City Police].

Cast

Cast notes:
Film critic Mordaunt Hall wrote in The [New York Times] that Chan "again proves himself to be the king-pin of criminologists," and that although the story is "somewhat confused," it has "some ingenious scenes, particularly one in which a vengeful Oriental hopes to kill Charlie Chan, but is foiled by a cat." Hall further noted that "Oland is the mainstay of this picture."