THE KILLER STRIKES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 March 1937, Page 4

THE KILLER STRIKES.

SUPER SLEUTH SOLVES MURDER. ‘•'CHARLIE CHAN AT THE CIRCUS.” You have seen Charlie Chan track and trap dangerous criminals'in Paris, Egypt, Shanghai and San Francisco, but never before has he been faced with the task of solving so fascinating a crime as the one- he unravels under the big top in the new thriller, “Charlie Chan at the Circus,” which opens at the Regent Theatre to-night, with its final appearance to-morrow.

With deadly cobras ready to strike with poisonous fangs, 'savage gorillas raging at his back and the shrewdest .criminal brains plotting his destruction, Warner 1 Oland, as the wily Charlie Chan, cleverly outwits his adversaries and solves the most baffling- crime of his career. Chan’s presence at the circus is purely for entertainment, but the murder of the circus chief soon rouses him to action. Since the dead OAvner’s relations with the performers were none too friendly, all of the troupe becomes open to suspicion, including the giant gorilla, missing from his cage at the time of the crime.

With only a few clues to work on, Chan slowly weaves a web of evidence around the suspected party. However, others fall victim, and Chan himself narrowly escapes derth. Eealising that the murderer will return to the scene of the crime to silence one of the performers who knows too much, Chan uses one of the murderer’s own victims as a decoy and cleverly traps the suspected person into revealing his true identity. In the supporting cast is Keye Luke, who in the role of Chan’s son, proves of valuable assistance in aiding the Oriental detective to solve the crime. Others prominent in the east arc Iraneis Ford, Maxine Eeiner and John McGuire.