Charlie Chan at The Olympics - Warner Oland - Keye Luke

Ace Chinese detective Charlie Chan and his son Lee who is an Olympic swimmer at the 1936 Summer Olympics face murder, intrigue and mystery!

When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to the current summer Olympic games in Berlin, where myriad spies, enemy agents, and hard-core criminals are ruthlessly pursuing it in order to sell it to another government. Charlie's number one son Lee, a member of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, is on hand to help his father recover the device and solve the mystery.

Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the U.S. Navy to track down a gang of international spies, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Berlin, where as luck would have it his son Lee (Keye Luke) is representing the United States as a member of the Olympic swimming team. Among Lee's teammates is Richard Masters (Allan Lane), who has unfortunately fallen under the spell of the alluring Yvonne Roland (Katherine De Mille), much to the dismay of his sweetheart Betty Adams (Pauline Moore). What no one knows (but Chan suspects) is that Yvonne is one of the spies, in league with the mysterious Arthur Hughes (C. Henry Gordon). Yvonne hides a stolen secret weapon in Betty's luggage, leading to a not-so-merry chase through Berlin, and the ultimate kidnapping of Lee Chan by the villains. Plus, there's a murder to be solved, and Berlin police chief Strasset (Fredrick Vogeding) isn't about to let Charlie Chan get the credit. Ironically, Charlie travels from New York to Berlin via the dirigible Hindenburg — which crashed into flames the same week that Charlie Chan at the Olympics was released (PS: The Nazi swastika on the tail of the airship was matted out by the special-effects crew).

This film is in The Public Domain, and a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unsupported License.

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[Ihatethisugh1]

I always love the old fashioned lingo. Someone should write a book with only that kind of content.

[cathytreks]

@Ihatethisugh1 Say... that's swell!... hot dog! ;)

[JonFrumTheFirst]

Egg-zactly! 

[JonFrumTheFirst]

@cathytreks I'd love to find out when they stopped saying 'swell.' I've been wondering that for years now.

[blacsouljah]

Textbook cinematic perfection. Charlie Chan rules!

[wdobni]

this is a silly funny clever suspenceful historically interesting movie.....recommend it....wish they still made movies like this......its a lot like Abbott and Costello Beat The Nazis

[hibob418]

22:46 Interesting how they (rather sloppily) painted out the tailfin swastikas on the Hindenburg in all of its shots. Thanks for posting, haven't seen this since I was a kid.

[jmancini1037]

Thank you so much for posting!

[donkfail1]

@geoharmonic

The real foreshadowing comes at 1:06:05. - The police of Berlin are very efficient. *BANG*

Unintended black humor...

[bdenton1957]

Good , clean , and fun to watch..no cuss words, why don't they make them like this anymore? thank you for bringing these fine pictures here...