Movies by C. Henry Gordon
As part of the cast:
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum / Murder Over New York (1940)
Cast: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Victor Sen Yung …
Directed by: Lynn Shores, Harry Lachman
Chinese-American supersleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) applies his uncanny powers of deduction to two puzzling cases in this classic mystery double feature. In Charlie Chan at the Wax…
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Heritage of the Desert (1939)
Cast: Donald Woods, Robert Barrat, C. Henry Gordon …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
After he's nearly killed in a plot to steal the land he inherited, East Coast transplant John Abbott (Donald Woods) teams up with a band of cowboys led by Andrew Naab (Robert Barrat) to…
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Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Cast: Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm, George Barbier …
Directed by: D. Ross Lederman
As winsome young Eleanor Reed (Eleanor Holm) treks through the African jungle with her parents and cowardly fiancé (George Meeker), Tarzan (Glenn Morris) does his best to keep her out of…
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Adventure in Sahara (1938)
Cast: Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray …
Directed by: D. Ross Lederman
Deep within the Sahara, chaos reigns at the French military outpost in Agadez, Niger, when mutinous legionnaires oust their despised commander (C. Henry Gordon), only to face later attacks…
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Cast: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore …
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
Det. Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) travels to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he is on the case to track down a team of international spies and recover their secret weapon, which is capable of…
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Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
When barracks built for the British army's 27th Bengal Lancers regiment are attacked by the unscrupulous Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon), who massacres the women and children living there,…
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The Crusades (1935)
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith …
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille directed this lavish epic about the holy wars, which earned an Oscar nod for Best Cinematography. In medieval Europe, the Christians are planning war against the Saracens,…
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Tarzan the Fearless / Tarzan's Revenge (1933)
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Mischa Auer, George Meeker …
Directed by: Robert F. Hill, D. Ross Lederman
Two different actors don the famous loincloth as the iconic jungle-bred adventurer in this 1930s-era double bill from director Robert F. Hill. In the first feature, Tarzan (Buster Crabbe)…
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Night Flight (1933)
Cast: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable …
Directed by: Clarence Brown
When polio erupts in Rio de Janeiro, French air-mail pilots must risk their lives to fly through the Andes and retrieve a much-needed serum in Santiago. Famous brothers John and Lionel…
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The Crooked Circle (1932)
Cast: James Gleason, Raymond Hatton, Tom Kennedy …
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
When a gang of amateur sleuths known as the Sphinx Club sends a crook to jail, the criminal's sinister Crooked Circle organization plots revenge. They lure the Sphinxes to a reportedly…
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Mata Hari (1931)
Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore …
Directed by: George Fitzmaurice
Loosely based on the persona of the real Mata Hari (the German exotic dancer who was convicted and executed as a spy during World War I), Greta Garbo's vampy femme fatale romances a…
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The Black Camel (1931)
Cast: Warner Oland, Dorothy Revier, Bela Lugosi …
Directed by: Hamilton MacFadden
"Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate." These wise, cryptic words come courtesy of beloved movie sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland), who investigates the murder of film…