The House Without a Key

The House Without a Key (1926)

A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'

Date of release
1926-11-21
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
3h 30m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Director
Spencer Gordon Bennet

Casting

Interesting facts

The House Without a Key is a 1926 American mystery serial film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. It is based on the 1925 novel of the same name and is the first onscreen appearance of the fictional detective Charlie Chan, although the main stars are Allene Ray and Walter Miller. The serial film is now considered to be lost.

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