Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Top billed cast
Sidney TolerCharlie Chan
Jean RogersKathi Lenesch (Baroness Kathi von Czardos)
Lionel AtwillCliveden Compton
Mary NashMiss Sarah Finch
Victor Sen YungJimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)
Kane RichmondRichard Cabot
Chris-Pin MartinSergeant Montero
Lionel RoyceDr. Rudolph Grosser
Helen EricsonStewardess
Jack La RueEmil Manolo
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