Dead Men Tell

Dead Men Tell
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Directed by	Harry Lachman
Written by	Earl Derr Biggers (characters) John Larkin
Produced by	Ralph Dietrich Walter Morosco
Starring	Sidney Toler Sheila Ryan Victor Sen Yung
Cinematography	Charles G. Clarke
Edited by	Harry Reynolds
Music by	Emil Newman
Production company	Twentieth Century-Fox
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox
Release date	March 28, 1941 (1941-03-28)
Running time	61 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dead Men Tell is a 1941 American mystery film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan and Victor Sen Yung. Toler played Charlie Chan in 22 feature films, beginning with Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and ending with The Trap (1946). The first 11 Charlie Chan films with Toler were produced by 20th Century Fox Studios, thereafter sold to Monogram Pictures.

The interiors for Dead Men Tell were filmed in 1941 at Fox Studios in Hollywood. Exterior shots were filmed on the 20th Century Fox backlot, which is now Century City.

Plot

Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on Cocos Island, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she gave to some of the passengers whom she has invited, but tells no one who they are. When she is given a fright and succumbs to her heart disease, Chan must clear up the mystery while the ship is still at the dock.

Cast

• Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
• Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan
• Sheila Ryan as Kate Ransome
• Robert Weldon as Steve Daniels
• Don Douglas as Jed Thomasson
• Katharine Aldridge as Laura Thursday
• Paul McGrath as Charles Thursday / Mr. Parks
• George Reeves as Bill Lydig
• Ethel Griffies as Miss Patience Nodbury
• Lenita Lane as Dr. Anne Bonney
• Milton Parsons as Gene La Farge, patient of Dr. Bonney

External links

• Dead Men Tell at IMDb
• Dead Men Tell at AllMovie
• Dead Men Tell at the TCM Movie Database
• Dead Men Tell at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Dead Men Tell film details at The Charlie Chan Family Home