''Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo'' is a 1937 American movie directed by

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. The main character is

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, a Chinese-Hawaiian detective. This was the sixteenth and final Charlie Chan film with

Warner Oland Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund; October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances. He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American ...

portraying Chan. The film features

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as Charlie's son Lee and character actor

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as a French police inspector. Warner Oland contracted bronchial pneumonia during his visit to Sweden and died there on August 6, 1938, at age 57. The series continued at Fox for another eleven entries with

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. In 1942 Fox sold it to

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, and it continued on even after Toler's death in 1947 with

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in the role through six films into 1949.

Plot summary

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder. The messenger for millionaire Victor Karnoff is ambushed and murdered, and $200,000.00 worth of bonds are missing. The taxicab of the two Chans passes the crime scene, and they become involved, with the blessing of the local law Chief Joubert(Huber). Later on, a bartender who was apparently attempting to blackmail the killer is also murdered, and the bonds found in his room. But Chan notices that in order to make certain the bonds were discovered, their briefcase had been opened with a special key that very few people had access to, and the bartender was not one of them. Back at the Karnoff mansion, Chan exposes the killer, who had been embezzling in order to keep femme' fate Evelyn Grey(Field) in the style to which she had become accustomed.

Cast

as Lee Chan *

Virginia Field Virginia Field (born Margaret Cynthia Field; 4 November 1917 – 2 January 1992) was a British-born film actress. Early years An only child, born in London, her father was Sir John Field. He was the judge of Leicester County Court Circuit. H ...

as Evelyn Grey *

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as Victor Karnoff *

as Chief of Police Jules Etienne Joubert *

Kay Linaker Mary Katherine Linaker (July 19, 1913 – April 18, 2008) was an American actress and screenwriter who appeared in many B movies during the 1930s and 1940s, most notably ''Kitty Foyle'' (1940) starring Ginger Rogers. Linaker used her married name ...

as Joan Karnoff * Robert Kent as Gordon Chase * Edward Raquello as Paul Savarin * George Lynn as Al Rogers *

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as Ludwig *

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as Hotel Clerk (uncredited) *

Leo White Leo White (November 10, 1882 – September 20, 1948), Leo Weiss, was a German-born British-American film and stage actor who appeared as a character actor in many Charlie Chaplin films. Biography Born in Germany, White grew up in England where ...

as French Butler (uncredited)

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* * * * * 1930s crime films American black-and-white films American crime films Charlie Chan films 1930s English-language films Films set in Monaco Films directed by Eugene Forde 20th Century Fox films Films scored by Samuel Kaylin 1930s American films {{1930s-crime-film-stub