Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Charlie Chan at the Race Track is the 12th film in the 20th Century Fox-produced Charlie Chan series starring Warner Oland in the title role.

Plot

When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stallion, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. But when the indomitable detective discovers evidence of foul play, he's soon hot on the hooves of an international gambling ring with an evil plot to turn the racetracks of the world into a trifecta of terror!

Cast

Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Keye Luke as Lee Chan
Helen Wood as Alice Fenton
Thomas Beck as Bruce Rogers
Alan Dinehart as George Chester
Gavin Muir as Bagley
Gloria Roy as Catherine Chester
Jonathan Hale as Warren Fenton
George Irving as Major Kent
Max Wagner as Joe
Paul Fix as Lefty
John Rogers as Mooney
Frankie Darro as Tip Collins
Frank Coghlan Jr as Eddie Brill
John H. Allen as Streamline Jones

Critical reception

A review of the film in The New York Times described it as a "wholesome film follows Hollywood's latest adaptation from Greek tragedy, dictated for all we know by the Hays office, of having its murders done offstage somewhere," that "the miscreants, simply litter the shop with false clues," and reported that "The unswerving Mr. Chan leaves the sniffing of herring trails to his son, Lee, a singularly unhelpful character."