Charlie Chan Carries On feature on the DVD release of "Charlie Chan in Shanghai". The film "Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise" (1940), starring Sidney Toler, Oland's successor in the role, was also based on the novel. Charlie Chan Carries On Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in "Behind That Curtain", is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot
Charlie Chan Liu is slated to star in and executive-produce a new Charlie Chan film for Fox. The film has been in preproduction since 2000; as of 2009 it is slated to be produced. On radio, Charlie Chan was heard in several different series on three networks (the NBC Blue Network, Mutual, and ABC) between 1932 and 1948. Walter Connolly initially portrayed Chan on Esso Oil's "Five Star Theater", which serialized adaptations of Biggers novels. Ed Begley, Sr. had the title role in N.B.C.'s "The Adventures of Charlie Chan" (1944–45), followed by Santos Ortega (1947–48). Leon Janney and Rodney Jacobs were heard