***SPOILERS*** Charlie Chan, Sidney Toler, going together with his #2 son Jimmy, Victor Sen Yung, to San Francisco's Golden Gate Ineternational Exposition gets caught up with the antics as well as murders of the mysterious Dr. Zodiac, Gerald Mohr, a man with a plan that only he knows just what the plan is. Before Charlie leaves the plane-The China Clipper- one of the passengers Paul Essex is found dead after he read a telegram from Dr. Zodiac who threatened his life if he completed his latest novel about the supernatural that he was the mine character in.
It's when Charlie gets off the plane that he meets "The Great Rhadini", Ceasar Romero, who's offered to pay $5,000.00 to Dr. Zodiac if he competes with him to show that he's a bigger fraud or magician that he is. This all leads to a numbered of murders in the San Francisco area of people connected to Dr. Zodiac who are in danger of exposing to the public as well as police to who he really is. Charlie himself is almost murdered by a flying knife that just missed him as he was attending a party in his honor with a number of the SFPD present.
***SPOILERS*** Charlie for his part is totally baffled in all the magic preformed by both Dr. Zodiac as well as "The Grest Rhadini" until Zodiac's top henchman Abdul "The Turk", who earlier tried to assassinate Charlie, is found murdered during an exhibition of his supernatural powers. This causes Charlie to suddenly realize just who this Dr. Zodiac really is and why "The Turk" was murdered in order to shut him up in what he knows what he boss is really all about. The usual confusing storyline you get in a "Charlie Chan" movie with his #2 Son Jimmy bumbling his way trough the film with a pair to torn trousers that in all the action as well as the hot weather air conditions his behind. As for the mysterious Dr. Zodiac he's so elusive, like the future and real Zodiac killer of the 1960's & 1970"s,that even when he's exposed and the movie is finally over your not quite sure just who he really is!
It's when Charlie gets off the plane that he meets "The Great Rhadini", Ceasar Romero, who's offered to pay $5,000.00 to Dr. Zodiac if he competes with him to show that he's a bigger fraud or magician that he is. This all leads to a numbered of murders in the San Francisco area of people connected to Dr. Zodiac who are in danger of exposing to the public as well as police to who he really is. Charlie himself is almost murdered by a flying knife that just missed him as he was attending a party in his honor with a number of the SFPD present.
***SPOILERS*** Charlie for his part is totally baffled in all the magic preformed by both Dr. Zodiac as well as "The Grest Rhadini" until Zodiac's top henchman Abdul "The Turk", who earlier tried to assassinate Charlie, is found murdered during an exhibition of his supernatural powers. This causes Charlie to suddenly realize just who this Dr. Zodiac really is and why "The Turk" was murdered in order to shut him up in what he knows what he boss is really all about. The usual confusing storyline you get in a "Charlie Chan" movie with his #2 Son Jimmy bumbling his way trough the film with a pair to torn trousers that in all the action as well as the hot weather air conditions his behind. As for the mysterious Dr. Zodiac he's so elusive, like the future and real Zodiac killer of the 1960's & 1970"s,that even when he's exposed and the movie is finally over your not quite sure just who he really is!