DEAD MEN TELL (1941) --colorized

Dead Men Tell is a 1941 American mystery film starring Sidney Toler, who played Charlie Chan in 22 feature films, beginning with Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and ending with The Trap (1946). The first 11 Charlie Chan films were produced by 20th Century Fox Studios, thereafter sold to Monogram Pictures.

The interiors for Dead Men Tell were filmed in 1941 at Fox Studios in Hollywood. Exterior shots were filmed on the 20th Century Fox backlot, which is now Century City.

Plot
Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on Cocos Island, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she gave to some of the passengers whom she has invited, but tells no one who they are. When she is given a fright and succumbs to her heart disease, Chan must clear up the mystery while the ship is still at the dock.

Cast
Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan
Sheila Ryan as Kate Ransome
Robert Weldon as Steve Daniels
Don Douglas as Jed Thomasson
Katharine Aldridge as Laura Thursday
Paul McGrath as Charles Thursday / Mr. Parks
George Reeves as Bill Lydig
Ethel Griffies as Miss Patience Nodbury
Lenita Lane as Dr. Anne Bonney
Milton Parsons as Gene La Farge, patient of Dr. Bonney