Chan in France

CHARLIE CHAN IN PARIS-1935-Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives solo in Paris for a rendezvous with a dancer who has secret info for him. Almost immediately he gets a warning to leave when a rock with a note attached is thrown through his car window.  He pretends to be on vacation but is actually working on a case for a London banking house. After the dancer is stabbed to death by a beggar (obviously a disguise) before they can meet Charlie searches her apartment and an unsuccessful attempt on his life is made. Back at his hotel he meets son Lee (Keye Luke) who becomes “Pop's” chauffeur and shadows several suspects. Charlie is investigating a bond fraud case. When a woman named Yvette (Mary Brian) is arrested for the murder of a sleazy banker, her fiance Victor (Thomas Beck) accompanies Chan through the sewers of gay Paree’ to catch a killer. John Miljan and John Qualen are also in it. 

Director Lewis Seiler in his only Chan outing, later directed several movies featuring Humphrey Bogart (YOU CAN'T GET AWAY WITH MURDER; CRIME SCHOOL; THE BIG SHOT).

Followed by CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT https://moviemeltdown.blogspot.com/2015/12/chan-again.html  and CHARLIE CHAN IN SHANGHAI. 

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