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Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)



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Aboard the recovery boat, Charlie Chan determines that a body
found aboard the recently sunken ship is not that of Allen Colby.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

Charlie Chan carrying the briefcase of the late Allen Colby.
Publicity Still
(10 x 8 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan shows Allen Colby's diary to Henrietta Lowell.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

 
 

Charlie Chan searches Colby House.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

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Following the murder of Allen Colby, Dick Williams and fiancé Alice Lowell are questioned.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan prepares to run a chemical test.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan determines the chemical components of a "psychic" effect.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan shows an "impressed" Baxter the result of his test.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan emerges near caretaker Ulrich's cottage from a passageway that leads from Colby House.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

Charlie Chan notes that the clock, mentioned as
being inaccurate, now shows the correct time.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan talks with Alice Lowell and Dick Williams.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan with Alice Lowell, Carlotta Bowan, Henrietta Lowell, and Janice Gage.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan with the transmitting device.
Publicity still
(10 x 8 inches)



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Charlie Chan and Henrietta Lowell confront an unnamed
gentleman (Charles McNaughton?) not seen in the finished film.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan questions psychic medium Carlotta Bowan.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan reveals the hidden source of the spiritual music.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

Henrietta Lowell realizes that her séances she has supported have been faked.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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The source of the eerie lighting effects is discovered.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan seeks clues within the shadowy confines of Colby House.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan with reporter Dick Williams and his fiancé Alice Lowell.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan questions the gruff caretaker of Colby House, Ulrich.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)



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Charlie Chan with Carlotta and her husband Professor Bowan in a fanciful scene.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

As Charlie Chan watches, Alice Lowell and Dick Williams react to the
appearance of Henrietta Lowell's apparition during the séance.
Publicity Still
(8 x 10 inches)

 
 

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A typed caption on the reverse side of this still reads: "A BIG MOMENT between scenes of 20th-Century Fox Film's "Charlie Chan's Secret" is in this intimate glimpse of Gloria Roy, Rosina Lawrence, Astrid Allwyn and Warner Oland as they manipulate the Ouija board, beseeching the gods of chance to return a good report on the following day's rushes - which as yet have not been photographed!"
Production Still
(8 x 10 inches)



Henrietta Lowell realizes that her séances she has supported have been faked.
Lobby Card
(11 x 14 inches)



Ulrich is questioned as the climactic moment approaches.
Lobby Card
(11 x 14 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan's Secret
Title Card
(11 x 14 inches)

 
 

Charlie Chan's Secret
Window Card
(22 x 14 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan's Secret
Herald ("A" side)
(9 x 12 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chan's Secret
Herald ("B" side)
(9 x 12 inches)

 
 

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Charlie Chans Hemlighet (Charlie Chan's Secret)
Swedish One Sheet Poster
(37 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches)

 
 

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