
“THE CASE OF THE MURDERED DIVORCEE!”
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Release Date: 6/16/1939
Runtime: 70 minutes
Languages: English, Italian
Director: Norman Foster
00Companies: 20th Century Fox
Countries: United States of America
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I didn't like this one so much. Our sleuth finds himself embroiled - with No. 2 son "Jimmy" (Victor Sen Yung) - in a puzzling case involving his old pal "Mary" (Pauline Moore) who gets herself implicated in the murder of the new girlfriend of her soon-to-be ex-husband. It's pretty clear that there is no lack of suspects as our profound and sagely detective attempts to get to the bottom of things and clear his friend's good name. As with most of his appearances in this guise, Sidney Toler carries off the part with gentle humour, but the story is just too rushed. There are far too many red herrings and I found the simpering effects of Iris Wong ("Choy") on the normally entertaining but in this case nauseatingly lovestruck "Jimmy" a bit irritating. Slim Summerville's ("Sheriff Fletcher") over cooked his part a bit too much, too. Fine to watch, just not one of the best.

Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan

Ricardo Cortez
Dr. Ainsley

Phyllis Brooks
Vivian Wells

Slim Summerville
Sheriff Tombstone Fletcher

Kane Richmond
Curtis Whitman

Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan

Pauline Moore
Mary Whitman

Eddie Collins
Cab Driver

Kay Linaker
Mrs. Wayne Russell

Louise Henry
Jeanne Bentley

Robert Lowery
Wally Burke

Charles D. Brown
Police Chief King
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