''Dead Men Tell'' is a 1941 American

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directed by Harry Lachman and starring Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan and Victor Sen Yung. Toler played Charlie Chan in 22 feature films, beginning with '' Charlie Chan in Honolulu'' (1938), and ending with '' The Trap'' (1946). The first 11 Charlie Chan films with Toler were produced by 20th Century Fox Studios, thereafter sold to Monogram Pictures. The interiors for ''Dead Men Tell'' were filmed in 1941 at Fox Studios in Hollywood. Exterior shots were filmed on the 20th Century Fox backlot, which is now Century City.

Plot

Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on

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, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she gave to some of the passengers whom she has invited, but tells no one who they are. When she is given a fright and succumbs to her heart disease, Chan must clear up the mystery while the ship is still at the dock.

Cast

* Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan * Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan * Sheila Ryan as Kate Ransome * Robert Weldon as Steve Daniels * Don Douglas as Jed Thomasson * Katharine Aldridge as Laura Thursday * Paul McGrath as Charles Thursday / Mr. Parks * George Reeves as Bill Lydig * Ethel Griffies as Miss Patience Nodbury * Lenita Lane as Dr. Anne Bonney *

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as Gene La Farge, patient of Dr. Bonney

References

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