Charlie Chan questions Koahla after discovering him listening
outside the door to his conversation with Minerva Winterslip.
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Publicity Still 117/7
8 x 10 inches
“You have all – except one – good excuse for much annoyance that I bring you here tonight. Humbly request patience, for though all are called, perhaps only one chosen.”
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Publicity Still 117/11
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan suggests to an impatient Minerva
Winterslip, “Only make haste when catching flea.”
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Publicity Still 117/12
8 x 10 inches
A skeptical Minerva Winterslip looks on as Charlie Chan questions
Amos Winterslip about the murder of his estranged brother, Dan.
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Publicity Still 117/13
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan shows Arlene Compton the brooch that
Dan Winterslip bought for her just before his murder.
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Publicity Still 117/15
8 x 10 inches
Arlene Compton tells Charlie Chan that the brooch in
question was given to her by the late Dan Winterslip.
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Publicity Still 117/16
8 x 10 inches
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
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Publicity Still 117/19
10 x 8 inches
Charlie Chan seeks a clue.
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Publicity Still 117/23
8 x 10 inches
Carlotta Eagan.
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Publicity Still 117/28
10 x 8 inches
Carlotta Eagan.
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Publicity Still 117/29
10 x 8 inches
John Quincy Winterslip and Carlotta Eagan.
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Publicity Still 117/34
8 x 10 inches
John Quincy Winterslip and Carlotta Eagan.
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Publicity Still 117/34
8 x 10 inches
At the Reef and Palm Hotel, Captain Hallett takes James Eagan in for questioning.
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Publicity Still 117/40
8 x 10 inches
Hearing Amos, Minerva, and John discussing the brooch
that Dan Winterslip had purchased for Arlene Compton,
Charlie Chan enters and demands it be handed over to him.
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Publicity Still 117/41
8 x 10 inches
John Quincy meets Carlotta at the Reef and Palm Hotel.
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Publicity Still 117/45
8 x 10 inches
John Quincy Wimterslip with Carlotta Eagan at the beach.
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Publicity Still 117/54
8 x 10 inches
Outside of the Reef and Palm Hotel at the beach, John Quincy
Wimterslip and Carlotta Eagan hear an ominous rustle in the bushes.
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Publicity Still 117/56
8 x 10 inches
Following a struggle with Koahla near the Reef and Palm Hotel on the beach, John Quincy inspects the box that was dropped as Koahla ran off, finding it marked “TMB.”
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Publicity Still 117/56
8 x 10 inches
Standing outside of the Reef and Palm Hotel,
Charlie Chan sees John Quincy and Carlotta.
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Publicity Still 117/59
7 5/8 x 10 inches (cropped)
John Quincy shows Charlie Chan the box he and
Carlotta recovered from Koahla at the beach.
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Publicity Still 117/63
8 x 10 inches
Steve Leatherbee, who is among the suspects
gathered at the Late Dan Winterslip’s home.
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Publicity Still 117/66
8 x 10 inches
T.M. Brade declares that the brooch that was given to Arlene
Compton by Dan Winterslip actually belongs to his family.
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Publicity Still 117/71
8 x 10 inches
James Eagan, accompanied by his daughter, Carlotta, who refuses to answer
Charlie Chan’s questions, thus bringing suspicion upon himself.
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Publicity Still 117/73
8 x 10 inches
As James Eagan refuses to answer his questions, Charlie Chan suggests he
be taken into custody, prompting Carlotta Eagan to reveal her father’s secret.
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Publicity Still 117/73
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan asks James Eagan why the late Dan Winterslip gave him a check for $5,000.
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Publicity Still 117/75
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan asks the beachcomber how he came to possess the
same watch that was worn by the murderer of Dan Winterslip.
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Publicity Still 117/80
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan states to Berkeley, “You murdered Dan and Amos Winterslip.”
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Publicity Still 117/81
8 x 10 inches
Meeting at Honolulu’s “All-American Restaurant,” Charlie Chan
agrees to John Quincy Winterslip’s request to participate in the
investigation of the murder of his uncle, Dan Winterslip.
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Publicity Still 117/85
8 x 10 inches
Awakened by the ringing telephone, Mrs. Chan rouses her husband.
Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case
Publicity Still 117/92 (miscut)
8 x 10 inches
Surrounded by his family, Charlie Chan speaks
with Honolulu Police Department Captain Hallett.
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Publicity Still 117/94
8 x 10 inches
Three of the Chans’ sons are awakened as the telephone rings in the middle of the night.
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Publicity Still 117/98
8 x 10 inches
The Chan family tries out their new 1933 Ford touring car,
a gift to Charlie Chan from a grateful Minerva Wnterslip.
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Publicity Still 117/102
8 x 10 inches
Carlotta Eagan and John Quincy Winterslip talk on a moonlit beach.
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Publicity Still 117/105
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan at some of his “multitudinous” family in a creative depiction.
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Publicity Still 117/106
8 x 10 inches
Charlie Chan poses with ten of his numerous offspring, girls on one side, boys on the other.
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Publicity Still 117/111
8 x 10 inches
Mr. and Mrs. Chan with two of their youngest children.
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Publicity Still 117/113
8 x 10 inches
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