The Black Camel

The Black Camel

71 mins | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | June 21, 1931

Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier, and she decides to reject Jaynes' proposal. When Shelah is found shot to death in her beach-front pavilion, Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police investigates.

The Black Camel

71 mins | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | June 21, 1931

The Black Camel
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier, and she decides to reject Jaynes' proposal. When Shelah is found shot to death in her beach-front pavilion, Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police investigates.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Fox Film Corporation
Original title The Black Camel
Directors Hamilton MacFadden
Writers Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Philip Klein, Barry Conners, Earl Derr Biggers

Cast

Warner Oland

as Charlie Chan

Sally Eilers

as Julie O'Neil

Bela Lugosi

as Tarneverro

Dorothy Revier

as Shelah Fane

Victor Varconi

as Robert Fyfe

Murray Kinnell

as Smith

William Post Jr.

as Alan Jaynes

Robert Young

as Jimmy

Violet Dunn

as Anna the maid

J. M. Kerrigan

as MacMaster

Mary Gordon

as Mrs. MacMaster

Rita Rozelle

as Luana

Otto Yamaoka

as Kashimo

Marjorie White

as Rita Ballou (uncredited)

Dwight Frye

as Jessop