A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.

An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.

In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...

Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.

Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

"Shady Business do not make for sunny life." - Charlie Chan

Plot: Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.


陈查理是上世纪初著名的华人侦探，名声之胜直赶福尔摩斯。据说，“陈查理”的原型是一名活跃在檀香山的华人侦探，其故事被美国作家别格斯写成书出版。“陈查理”在一定程度上算是“正面形象”。身为侦探，陈查理是正义和法律的象征，他总能成功地协助美国警察将罪犯捉拿归案。但就因为陈查理在影片中是个华人，所以该片对其刻画时处心积虑地加进了很多“想象”和“加工”。影片中的陈查理”举止缓慢，外表谦卑，说话吞吞吐吐，常犯语法错误，还故意带着怪腔怪调的中国口音。更离奇的是，前后历经50多年、近50部系列电影中的陈查理竟全是由美国白人演员扮演的。
甚至到1981年，当时最新一集的陈查理探案系列影片《龙之后》仍然由白人演员尤斯 蒂诺夫（Peter Ustinov）饰演陈查理。其他一些配角倒是起用过亚洲演员，比如《功夫》一片的演员陆 锡麒就曾经出演过陈查理大儿子。这几点颇涉及种族歧视问题，因此该系列影片在近些年一直很少上映。

国内广东天人影音传播有限公司推出 华人侦探陈查理推理专辑套装（DVD）包括：

1 杰德的面具 ISRC CN-G03-05-0087-0/V.J9 文像进字：（2005）320号
2 秘密的服务 ISRC CN-G03-05-0084-0/V.J9 文像进字：（2005）317号
3 腥红的线索 ISRC CN-G03-05-0086-0/V.J9 文像进字：（2005）319号
4 中国猫 ISRC CN-G03-05-0083-0/V.J9 文像进字：（2005）316号
5 上海眼镜蛇 ISRC CN-G03-05-0085-0/V.J9 文像进字：（2005）318号
6 午夜幽会 ISRC CN-G03-05-0088-0/V.J9 文像进字：（2005）321号

1945 film by Phil Karlson