Back home

The House Without a Key

0 votes

Producing House

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.'

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1926-11-21

Runtime: 210 mins

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet

Writer: Earl Derr Biggers, Frank Leon Smith

Spoken language: No Language

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Original title: The House Without a Key

Production Companies: Pathé Exchange

Production Countries: United States of America

Recommendations

Murder by Death
3.6

Murder by Death

1976-06-23

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a b

Charlie Chan's Chance
3.3

Charlie Chan's Chance

1932-01-24

Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer

Charlie Chan's Courage
4

Charlie Chan's Courage

1934-07-06

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes h

Charlie Chan's Secret
3.4

Charlie Chan's Secret

1936-01-10

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of

Charlie Chan in Paris
3.3

Charlie Chan in Paris

1935-01-21

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery r

Charlie Chan in Reno
3.1

Charlie Chan in Reno

1939-06-16

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murde

Charlie Chan in Shanghai
3.3

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

1935-10-11

When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee t

Charlie Chan at the Circus
3.1

Charlie Chan at the Circus

1936-03-27

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investi

Charlie Chan at the Race Track
3.5

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

1936-08-07

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
3.3

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939-08-31

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a wor

City in Darkness
3.2

City in Darkness

1939-11-15

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the mu

Charlie Chan in Egypt
3.5

Charlie Chan in Egypt

1935-06-04

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers tha

Charlie Chan in London
3.4

Charlie Chan in London

1934-09-12

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits exe

Charlie Chan in Honolulu
3.2

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

1938-12-30

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his fathe

Docks of New Orleans
3

Docks of New Orleans

1948-03-21

Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begi

Castle in the Desert
3.4

Castle in the Desert

1942-02-02

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
3.4

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

1937-05-21

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of

Charlie Chan at the Opera
3.4

Charlie Chan at the Opera

1936-12-04

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting r

Behind That Curtain
1.9

Behind That Curtain

1929-06-30

Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered

Madam City Hunter
2.4

Madam City Hunter

1993-09-16

A young lady and her father are threatened by a gang named the Five Fingers. Private eye Charlie com