Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

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Stanley C @MrSHCox1 4d I've been watching these Charlie Chan movies since I was a child. This has always been one of my favorites and it still is. See more Russ G Mar 30 Another implausible and utterly convoluted "mystery" full of red herrings. I've learned to not even bother trying to follow the plot lines on these flicks - I don't think the script writers or directors even kept track but somehow our inscrutable Oriental sleuth pulls the solution out of his butt at the big reveal. As usual with Mr. Toler in the lead, Number Two Son tags along with his hare-brained theories on the caper. Decent production values for a B-movie as this came out of Fox studios rather than the later Poverty Row installments of the late 40's. A "Tolerable" hour's diversion but nothing to write home about. See more Ted B @Movieaddicted 01/09/2025 3.0 stars; This Charlie Chan mystery does a good job of combining a spooky night in the wax museum with the mystery of a professor's murder. The professor had challenged Charlie to solve a previous murder on a radio broadcast. See more andy f 07/12/2021 This one's a corker. I much prefer Sidney Toller's take on Chan and the jokes are better! This is a lot of fun with the usual overly complicated cast of characters and plot. A better Wax museum movie than many of the horror films that covered the same subjec! See more 08/23/2013 Another entry with Sidney Toler as Chan (after Warner Oland died but before the series moved to low-budget Monogram Pictures). Here Charlie (with "help" from Number Two Son Jimmy) knows he is being lured into a trap by an escaped killer who he sent to death row with his testimony. The action take place in a Wax Museum dedicated to killers and crime (creating a pretty creepy mise-en-scene) and as usual a host of character actors are trotted out (sometimes with very little real differentiation) to play the role of red herrings. The solution here is either too easy (one main clue) or impossible if you judge that clue to be the kind of classic misdirection that usually takes place in these films. See more 02/09/2013 Lots Of Fun Characters In This Chan Mystery--Spooky times in the Chamber of Horrors!! See more Read all reviews

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

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