Charlie Chan In Egypt (1935)

The world renowned detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is visiting Egypt on the behalf of a museum to find out why priceless objects from excavated tombs are showing up in the hands of private collectors. His first mission is to visit an archaeologist (George Erving) but when he turns up murdered, it's up to Chan to solve his murder and the murders that follow. Based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggers and directed by Louis King. This is one of the less interesting movies in the Charlie Chan franchise. It's rather on the dull side, actually. While there are several suspects, I thought, "Well, it can't be him. He's too obvious." They went for the obvious. The sound stage Egypt doesn't provide much atmosphere and the most interesting aspect of the film was seeing a very young, pre-stardom Rita Hayworth as an Egyptian servant in only her second film. Comedy relief is provided by Stepin Fetchit whose mumbling, shuffling racial stereotype is painful to watch. With Thomas Beck, Pat Paterson, Frank Conroy, Jameson Thomas and James Eagles.