Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Charlie Chan at the Race Track is the 12th film in the 20th Century Fox-produced Charlie Chan series starring Warner Oland in the title role.

Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Directed by	H. Bruce Humberstone
Written by	Lou Breslow Saul Elkins
Produced by	John Stone
Starring	Warner Oland
Cinematography	Harry Jackson
Music by	Samuel Kaylin
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	August 7, 1936 (1936-08-07)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stallion, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. But when the indomitable detective discovers evidence of foul play, he's soon hot on the hooves of an international gambling ring with an evil plot to turn the racetracks of the world into a trifecta of terror!

Cast

• Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
• Keye Luke as Lee Chan
• Helen Wood as Alice Fenton
• Thomas Beck as Bruce Rogers
• Alan Dinehart as George Chester
• Gavin Muir as Bagley
• Gloria Roy as Catherine Chester
• Jonathan Hale as Warren Fenton
• George Irving as Major Kent
• Max Wagner as Joe
• Paul Fix as Lefty
• John Rogers as Mooney
• Frankie Darro as Tip Collins
• Frank Coghlan Jr as Eddie Brill
• John H. Allen as Streamline Jones

Critical reception

A review of the film in The New York Times described it as a "wholesome film [that] follows Hollywood's latest adaptation from Greek tragedy, dictated for all we know by the Hays office, of having its murders done offstage somewhere," that "the miscreants, (there are a lot of them) simply litter the shop with false clues," and reported that "The unswerving Mr. Chan leaves the sniffing of herring trails to his son, Lee, a singularly unhelpful character."^[1]