The House Without a Key
(1926)

Released: 1926-11-21

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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.'

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Allene Ray

as Carry Egan

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Walter Miller

as John Quincy Winterclip

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E.H. Calvert

as Dan Winterclip

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Betty Caldwell

as Barbara Winterclip

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Natalie Warfield

as Minerva Winterclip

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Jack Pratt

as James Egan

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William Bailey

as Harry Jennison

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George Kuwa

as Charlie Chan

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Harry Semels

as Saladine

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John Cossar

as District Attorney

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Scott Seaton

as Detective Hallett

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Cliff Saum

as Kennedy

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Shia Jung

as The Young Chinese Girl

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