The House Without a Key (1926)
3h 30m
Running Time
November 21, 1926Release Date
The House Without a Key (1926)
3h 30m
Running Time
November 21, 1926Release Date
Plot.
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.'
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Cast & Crew.
Allene Ray
Carry Egan
Walter Miller
John Quincy Winterclip
E.H. Calvert
Dan Winterclip
Betty Caldwell
Barbara Winterclip
Natalie Warfield
Minerva Winterclip
Jack Pratt
James Egan
William Bailey
Harry Jennison
Frank Lackteen
Kaohla
Details.
Release DateNovember 21, 1926
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 30m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
charlie chan
Wiki.
The House Without a Key is a 1926 American mystery film serial 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 film is now considered to be lost.