Charlie Chan On Broadway (1937)

A Manhattan night club singer (Louise Henry) is a passenger on a transatlantic liner from Germany to New York. When her cabin is broken into, she hides a mysterious package in the trunk of the famous detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) for safekeeping. But before she can retrieve the package, she is murdered. Based on the Chan character created by Earl Derr Biggers and directed by Eugene Forde (SLEEPERS WEST). This is one of the better entries in the Charlie Chan franchise. The murder case is cleverly constructed and while there is no shortage of murder suspects, when the killer is revealed, it's an unexpected surprise. With Leon Ames, Donald Woods, Keye Luke, Joan Woodbury, Douglas Fowley, Marc Lawrence, Toshia Mori and Harold Huber.