The Black Camel

A film star working on location will not marry until her psychic approves, the psychic has reasons, and Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police has an older murder to solve, which turns out to be the same case. Death is the black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate, says Chan's proverb. Warner Oland is Chan and Bela Lugosi, the year of Dracula, plays the fraud straight. Shot in Honolulu, so the beach and the hotel are real; the earliest of Oland's Chan films that survives and the only one taken to the islands. Hamilton MacFadden for Fox, from Earl Derr Biggers, 1931.