Directed by:
Harry LachmanCinematography:
Charles G. ClarkeComposer:
David RaksinCast:
Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Kay Aldridge, George Reeves, Pat Flaherty, Ethel Griffies, Paul McGrath, Milton Parsons, Stanley Andrews, Charles Tannen (more)Plots(1)
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) finds adventure on the high seas in "Dead Men Tell." Chan enlists the aid of his number two son, Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung), to get to the bottom of a mystery concerning the death of an elderly woman who was supposedly haunted by the ghost of an ancient pirate ancestor for a hidden map while on a ship chartered for a treasure hunt. Sheila Ryan and Robert Weldon co-star. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Sidney Toler
USA
Best movies:
Double Wedding (1937)
Our Relations (1936)
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Sheila Ryan
USA
Best movies:
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Great Guns (1941)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
Kay Aldridge
USA
George Reeves
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Ethel Griffies
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Paul McGrath
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Advise and Consent (1962)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Milton Parsons
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Edison, the Man (1940)
White Heat (1949)
Stanley Andrews
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Charles Tannen
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Brick Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Crazy (1941)
Tim Ryan
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
The Stratton Story (1949)
John Wallace
UK
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Donald Douglas
UK
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Gilda (1946)
Ralph Dunn
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Lee Tung Foo
USA
Best movies:
The Stratton Story (1949)
Laura (1944)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Jimmy Aubrey
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Random Harvest (1942)
Lee Phelps
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Victor Sen Yung
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
Woman on the Run (1950)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Paul Kruger
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Invisible Man (1933)