The Black Camel
The Black Camel ★★ 1931
In the 2nd Charlie Chan mystery, set (and filmed) in Honolulu, the detective (Oland) investigates the murder of movie starlet Sheila Fane. Lugosi plays a psychic. Based on the Earl Derr Bigger's novel. 71m/B DVD . Warner Oland, Bela Lugosi, Robert Young, Victor Varconi, J.M. Kerrigan, Marjorie White, Sally Eilers, Dorothy Revier, Dwight Frye; D: Hamilton McFadden; W: Barry Connors, Philip Klein; C: Joseph August, Daniel B. Clark; M: Samuel Kaylin.
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