The Black Camel (1931)
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
Director:
Hamilton MacFadden
Writers:
Philip Klein, Barry Conners.
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Warner Oland as Charlie Chan |
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Sally Eilers as Julie O'Neil |
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Bela Lugosi as Tarneverro |
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Dorothy Revier as Shelah Fane |
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Victor Varconi as Robert Fyfe |
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Murray Kinnell as Archie Smith |
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William Post Jr. as Alan Jaynes |
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Robert Young as Jimmy Bradshaw |
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Violet Dunn as Anna the Maid |
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J.M. Kerrigan as Thomas MacMasters |
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Mary Gordon as Mrs. MacMasters |
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Rita Rozelle as Luana |
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Otto Yamaoka as Kashimo |
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Dwight Frye as Jessop the Butler (uncredited) |
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C. Henry Gordon as Huntley Van Horn (uncredited) |
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Hamilton MacFadden as Val Martino (uncredited) |
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Richard Tucker as Wilkie Ballou (uncredited) |
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Marjorie White as Rita Ballou (uncredited) |
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James Wang as Wong (uncredited) |
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Robert Homans as Chief of Police (uncredited) |
| Directing | Hamilton MacFadden | Director |
| Writing | Earl Derr Biggers | Novel |
| Writing | Philip Klein | Dialogue |
| Writing | Barry Conners | Dialogue |
| Camera | Joseph H. August | Director of Photography |
| Sound | W.W. Lindsay Jr. | Sound Recordist |
| Camera | Daniel B. Clark | Director of Photography |
| Art | Ben Carré | Art Direction |
| Production | William Sistrom | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Earl Derr Biggers | Original Story |
| Writing | Philip Klein | Screenplay |
| Writing | Barry Conners | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hugh Stanislaus Stange | Adaptation |