
When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to the current summer Olympic games in Berlin, where myriad spies, enemy agents, and hard-core criminals are ruthlessly pursuing it in order to sell it to another government. Charlie's son Lee, a member of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, is on hand to help his father recover the device and solve t... (Full plot summary below)
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When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to the current summer Olympic games in Berlin, where myriad spies, enemy agents, and hard-core criminals are ruthlessly pursuing it in order to sell it to another government. Charlie's son Lee, a member of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, is on hand to help his father recover the device and solve the mystery.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis adventure story features some actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. |
| User ReviewDavid DWarner Oland as Charlie Chan. This time he is after spies and pursues them to Berlin at the time of the 1936 Olympics. A more than usually complicated story with two sets of villains for Chan to defeat. Two Chan sons "help" their father in this exploit. Good B picture entertainment. |
| User ReviewArt SHe's at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in fact, and surprisingly there is no mention of Nazism anywhere in the film, even though Charlie Chan rides the Hindenberg across the Atlantic to get there and German police work hand-in-hand with him, often trumpeting their well-known efficiency. Surprisingly, ethnic stereotypes are pretty mild in this film; Chan himself, played by Swede Warner Oland, is barely Asian at all, except for his unrecognizable accent and fortune cookie witticisms. And his son, Lee, played by Keye Luke, is thoroughly All-American (even winning a gold medal swimming for the USA at the end of the picture -- sorry for the spoiler). Other Charlie Chan films featuring his servant Birmingham seem a bit more racist (as I recall). The main focus here, of course, is the mystery -- someone has murdered in order to steal a top-secret macguffin that could be used for military purposes. There is a long list of suspects, some easily confused, but Charlie does manage to save the day. Reputedly one of the better films in the series and that could be true. |