Besides Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, this film's cast contained three other actors who also played famous crimefighters: Ricardo Cortez (Sam Spade in the 1931 "Maltese Falcon"), Morgan Conway (Dick Tracy in two RKO films in the mid-1940's) and Robert Lowery (Batman in the Columbia serial "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" in 1948).
Actor 'Hamilton McFadden', who plays the bit anonymous supporting role of a night clerk, formerly directed three earlier big budget entries in the series: "The Black Camel," (1931), Charlie Chan Carries On" 1931), and "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" in addition to starting "Charlie Chan in Paris" (1935).
The twenty-first of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies.
The opening lines of the song 'Someone's Ballad' by singer/songwriter Paul Murphy - "She pulled into the Hotel Sierra/White-heeled and hollow-eyed" - come from Pauline Moore's arrival at her hotel in this film.
Final film of actress Louise Henry.
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