Charlie Chan gets involved with the world of the supernatural when he and son Jimmy Chan are on a flight to San Francisco mystery novelist Louis Jean Heydt takes his own life. The circumstances are so intriguing that both Sidney Toler and SFPD detective Donald MacBride open an investigation.
The title is once again a misnomer. Somebody wanted to get the San Francisco World's Fair some publicity and named the film that. We get nowhere near the fair nor to Treasure Island.
Douglas Fowley a reporter and Cesar Romero a magician who has his own club where magic acts are featured declare themselves in on the hunt.
Pauline Moore a psychic is the key to this whole plot. You'll have to watch the film to see how that is. I will say that this was quite an organized blackmail racket. The villain had files on people that may have rivaled J. Edgar Hoover's.
The title is once again a misnomer. Somebody wanted to get the San Francisco World's Fair some publicity and named the film that. We get nowhere near the fair nor to Treasure Island.
Douglas Fowley a reporter and Cesar Romero a magician who has his own club where magic acts are featured declare themselves in on the hunt.
Pauline Moore a psychic is the key to this whole plot. You'll have to watch the film to see how that is. I will say that this was quite an organized blackmail racket. The villain had files on people that may have rivaled J. Edgar Hoover's.