Hitchcoc After solving the Stable Murder, Charlie finds his way to Paris and a meeting with a contact, who is a dancer, performing In a nightclub. After arriving in the City of Lights, pretending to be on vacation, he waits for the dancer to conclude her performance. Before he can talk to her, she is stabbed. A guy who is dressed like Father Guido Sarducci, is the culprit. This will be a significant development later in the story. An attractive young woman has connections to some guys who have been messing around with illegal treasury bonds. As a matter of fact, she is present when a man, with whom she has had a relationship, is gunned down. Because of her presence on the scene and her connection to the guy, she is blamed for the murder. Once again, however, the great Chinese detective looks for the small details which lead to his solving he case.

binapiraeus Directly from solving successfully the London murder mystery, Charlie Chan goes on to Paris - on account of a British bank, who's discovered there's some strange business with bonds going on at a Parisian bank, with huge sums of money involved, of course. In Paris, Charlie has got an undercover helper who's been working on the case for a while and has gathered quite some information; and they agree that he and the beautiful young dancer meet right after her performance - but, there's a pretty gruesome beginning to this new case: at the end of her magnificent dancing performance, pretty Nardi is brutally stabbed before she can give any information to Charlie.At least, he finds something in her apartment: a notebook with everything she'd found out, which contains the name of one of the bank's employees, Dufresne, who's been spending surprisingly high amounts of money lately... But Dufresne is soon murdered himself, and the suspicion falls on the bank director's daughter Yvette, who once had an affair with him; then there is Victor Descartes, now Yvette's fiancée and also an employee at the bank, their friend, painter Latouche - and a mysterious, crippled beggar who always seems to turn up near the scene of every crime...Sounds complicated? In fact, it IS, and it requires absolute attention by the audience - and of course of by Charlie, who's in constant danger... To his good fortune, his 'number 1 son' Lee (Keye Luke, in his first appearance in the series) appears in Paris to assist his father! Another VERY well done classic crime mystery, absolutely worth watching and still fresh after 80 years...

utgard14 Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) goes to Paris to investigate a forger and winds up investigating a murder alongside his son Lee (Keye Luke). I love old detective films and the Charlie Chan series are among the best. Several actors played Chan but Warner Oland was my favorite. This film is also the debut of another favorite, Keye Luke as Lee Chan aka Number One Son. Luke was a wonderful addition to the series, providing Charlie with a sidekick to do physical action as well as be comic relief. There would be other sons and sidekicks for Charlie later but Lee was the best, in my opinion. Nice supporting cast that includes Erik Rhodes, John Miljan, Thomas Beck, and John Qualen. This is a fun one, as all of the Warner Oland Chans were.

jonfrum2000 A reviewer wrote this: "Chan films, particularly those starring Oland, often use the device of allowing other characters to show vulgar racism toward Chan--and Chan often encourages such dismissiveness to his own ends; underestimation of Chan's talents often delivers the killer into the detective's hand. At times, however, the device has an unfortunate tone, and that occurs here, particularly in an early scene which presents Chan speaking in pidgin and then joining others in their laughter at the "joke." This sort of patronization would be soon dropped from the series, but it is significantly offensive when it occurs." Which, of course, couldn't be more wrong. Charlie embarrasses the drunken oaf who speaks the pidgin by answering in perfect English, and then twists the knife by finishing in the foolish pidgin. This scene is another example of how Fox went out of their way to point out the ignorance of those bigots who doubt Charlie's intelligence and dignity. I'm sure the message came through perfectly clear to the audience at the time.