Murder over New York
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Harry Lachman
Sidney Toler
Marjorie Weaver
Robert Lowery
Ricardo Cortez
Donald Macbride
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
En route to a police convention in New York, Charlie Chan meets his old friend, Hugh Drake, a British intelligence officer who is on the trail of Paul Narvo, the spy who has been sabotaging U.S. built bombers bound for England. At the airport in New York, Drake is met by his host, aircraft tycoon George Kirby, who invites Chan to a party he is giving for Drake. Later that night, Chan arrives at Kirby's party to find Drake murdered by a poison gas pellet. Aided by police inspector Vance, Chan interrogates the assembled guests: Herbert Fenton, Drake's old school friend; actress June Preston; stockbroker Richard Jeffrey; Ralph Percy, an aircraft designer; and Kirby's butler, Boggs. Learning little from the guests, Chan tracks down Narvo's ex-wife, Patricia Shaw, who explains that she fled from her husband and his sinister servant, Rumullah, upon learning that he was a spy. Chan also questions David Elliott, a chemist who visited Drake on the night of his death. After Chan's search for Rumullah ends in the servant's death and Kirby is found poisoned, Chan assembles all the suspects on the test flight of a bomber that is to be sabotaged by poison gas pellets. As the bomber descends to the level that will trigger the gas, Fenton grabs the hidden pellets, revealing himself to be involved in the plot. As the plane lands safely, however, Chan announces that Fenton is too old to be Narvo, and then cleaverly tricks the real Narvo, Dick Elliott, into exposing himself as the spy.
Director
Harry Lachman
Cast
Sidney Toler
Marjorie Weaver
Robert Lowery
Ricardo Cortez
Donald Macbride
Melville Cooper
Joan Valerie
Kane Richmond
Sen Yung
Leyland Hodgson
Clarence Muse
Frederick Worlock
John Sutton
Lal Chand Mehra
Dorothy Dearing
Catherine Craig
Lee Phelps
Stanley Blystone
Ralph Dunn
Shirley Warde
George Walcott
Paul Kruger
Alan Davis
Carl Faulkner
Jimmie Dundee
Eddy Chandler
Frank Fanning
Shemp Howard
Trevor Bardette
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Bud Geary
Crew
Joseph E. Aiken
Lewis Creber
Richard Day
William Eckhardt
Herschel
Harry M. Leonard
Thomas Little
Louis Loeffler
Virgil Miller
Emil Newman
Sol M. Wurtzel
Lester Ziffren
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The working title of this film was Charlie Chan in New York. According to Fox publicity material contained in the AMPAS Library files, the studio changed the title in order to prevent the public from confusing this film with other Chan features. For additional information about the series, consult the Series Index and see Charlie Chan Carries On (above).
