Movie review - Chan#10 - "Charlie Chan's Secret" (1936) **

An old dark house mystery - a long-lost heir, a group of family members gathered for a will reading, seances, an eccentric old lady, guns peering through curtains, a comic butler, a tiresomely chipper heroine and her tiresomely chipper reporter boyfriend. Its all very very familiar - too familiar. It's also predictable since the guy who looks like a villain is. Herbert Mundin mugs as the wacky butler and there is some nice banter between Charlie Chan and the little old lady. But its fairly unexciting stuff.