The last Charlie Chan that Warner Oland every made is a breezy, bright entertainment with Oland and Keye Luke in excellent form. It's given an extra fillip by being set at Monte Carlo (French police, casinos, shady ladies, desperate gamblers) and also in the relationship between Chan and the local head of police, charmingly played by Harold Huber.
It's a lot of fun even if the mystery isn't particularly memorable and by now the characters were becoming really hard to tell apart. It's also hilarious that the killer confesses the crime, then runs out of a building... and is hit by a speeding car. This isn't one of the best in the series - no Boris Karloff for starters - but it's a good one for Oland to go out on.
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