
Dead Men Tell (1941)
Aboard a treasure ship Chan battles his most elusive adversary... the ghost of a pirate 100 years dead!
61 min
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
- Release date
- March 28, 1941
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
- Sheila Ryan as Kate Ransome
- Robert Weldon as Steve Daniels
- Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan
- Donald Douglas as Jed Thomasson
- Kay Aldridge as Laura Thursday
- Paul McGrath as Mr. Parks
- George Reeves as Bill Lydig
- Truman Bradley as Capt. Kane
- Ethel Griffies as Miss Patience Nodbury
Crew
- Harry Lachman · Director
- John Francis Larkin · Writer
- Earl Derr Biggers · Writer
- Ralph Dietrich · Producer
- Walter Morosco · Producer
- Charles G. Clarke · Cinematographer
- Harry Reynolds · Editor