Charlie Chan at the Opera
United States
1936
68 Min
Black and White
English
Synopsis
Gravelle, a former baritone believed dead after an opera house fire, has been languishing in a mental institution for the past seven years, an anonymous amnesiac. When he fortuitously sees a news story about his former wife’s current appearance at the local opera, his memory returns. He escapes, and, disguised in costume, seeks revenge for a failed attempt on his life years earlier. When the guilty parties are found stabbed to death, Charlie Chan and son Lee try to find out if the dangerous fugitive is the one responsible. —IMDb
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Born Nov. 18, 1901 in Buffalo, NY, Died Oct. 11, 1984 of cancer in Motion Picture and Television Country House, CA. One of Hollywood’s most versatile and commercially successful directors, H. Bruce Humberstone began his career as a clerk and sometime actor in the silent film era. He rose to become an assistant to some of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors, including King Vidor, Allan Dwan, Fred Niblo and John Ford before taking over direction of his own films in the early 1930s.
He directed 43 movies and also made several expensive and successful musicals, including “Sun Valley Serenade” with Sonja Henie, “Pin Up Girl” with Betty Grable and “Wonder Man” with Danny Kaye. He directed four Charlie Chan mysteries, two Tarzan pictures, several westerns and World War II movies.
Humberstone made his last movie, “Madison Avenue,” in 1962, but later directed a number of television episodes, including “Daniel Boone,” “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” and “The Smothers Brothers… read more
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