The House Without a Key
1926 · 3h 30m · Passed Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Overview
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.'
Director and cast
- Allene Ray as Carry Egan
- Walter Miller as John Quincy Winterclip
- E.H. Calvert as Dan Winterclip
- Betty Caldwell as Barbara Winterclip
- John Webb Dillion as Amos Winterslip
- Natalie Warfield as Minerva Winterclip
- Jack Pratt as James Egan
- William Bailey as Harry Jennison
- Frank Lackteen as Kaohla
- George Kuwa as Charlie Chan
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