The House Without a Key (1926)
210 min
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
- Data de estreia
- 21 de novembro de 1926
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Allene Ray como Cary Egan
- Walter Miller como John Quincy Winterslip
- E.H. Calvert como Dan Winterslip
- John Webb Dillion como Amos Winterslip
- Betty Caldwell como Barbara Winterslip
- Natalie Warfield como Minerva Winterslip
- Jack Pratt como James Egan
- William Bailey como Harry Jennison
- Frank Lackteen como Kaohla
- George Kuwa como Charlie Chan
Equipe
- Spencer Gordon Bennet · Diretor(a)
- Earl Derr Biggers · Roteirista
- Frank Leon Smith · Roteirista
- Edward Snyder · Diretor(a) de fotografia