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 at the Opera bloodstained belt. Among the questions asked are who has been threatening Lilli Rochelle's life, the mystery man in Barelli's dressing room before he is murdered, and why does Chan insist that the opera be performed twice in one evening? Levant composed the music for the onscreen opera "Carnival". Future Number 3 Son Tommy Chan actor Benson Fong is an opera extra. Charlie Chan at the Opera Charlie Chan at the Opera is considered by many to be the best Warner Oland Charlie Chan film, probably due to the presence of Boris Karloff as the principal suspect, as well as faux