Cast: Warner Oland

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Clive Brook · Warner Oland · Anna May Wong

Synopsis Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Victor McLaglen · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Warner Oland

Synopsis Director Josef von Sternberg’s answer to MGM’s MATA HARI with Greta Garbo stars Marlene Dietrich as X27, a seductive agent sent by the Austrian secret service to spy on the Russians. In the process, she goes up against and falls...

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Greta Garbo · Herbert Marshall · George Brent · Warner Oland

Synopsis In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister's marriage and she agrees to marry her father's research associate Dr. Walter Fane. Fane takes her to China but constantly ignors her in favour of his medical research. Lonely Katrin has an...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Warner Oland · Lyle Talbot

Synopsis Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Al Jolson · May McAvoy · Warner Oland · Eugenie Besserer

Synopsis Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been Cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested...

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Boris Karloff · Keye Luke · William Demarest

Synopsis Regarded by many as the best of the Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow performers (his wife and her lover).

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Henry Hull · Valerie Hobson · Warner Oland · Spring Byington

Synopsis Botanist Dr Wilfred Glendon goes on an expedition into the Himalayas in search of the marifisa lupina lumina, a rare orchid that only blooms by moonlight. He finds the marifisa in a remote valley but is attacked and his arm...

Direction Louis King

Cast Warner Oland · Pat Paterson · Thomas Beck · Rita Hayworth

Synopsis While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Warner Oland · Sally Eilers · Bela Lugosi · Dorothy Revier

Synopsis Movie star Sheila Fayne is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier,...

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Stuart Erwin · Dorothy Wilson · Warner Oland · Dudley Digges

Synopsis Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Now that he lay dying a painful death, he trades the location of the money to Dr. Cornelius for a shot to end his suffering. When...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Ronald Colman · Loretta Young · C. Aubrey Smith · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body -...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Elissa Landi · Paul Lukas · Warner Oland · Alexander Kirkland

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Warner Oland · Francis Ford · George Brasno · Keye Luke

Synopsis While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Jacqueline Logan · Charles Delaney · Warner Oland · Charles Hill Mailes

Direction Eugene Forde · George Hadden

Cast Warner Oland · Drue Leyton · Donald Woods · Paul Harvey

Synopsis Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast John Barrymore · Dolores Costello · Warner Oland · Sam De Grasse

Synopsis Fabien des Grieux, a divinity student, comes to the rescue of a beautiful girl, Manon Lescaut, when her brother tries to "sell" her to the lecherous Comte Guillot de Morfontaine. Fabien and Manon fall in love and he abandons his...

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast William Boyd · James Gleason · Warner Oland · Dorothy Sebastian

Synopsis Unable to repay a substantial gambling debt to mob boss North, Alan Beckwith concocts a last-ditch scheme. Allowing North to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on his life, Alan agrees to commit suicide after the mandantory one-year moratorium has...

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Warner Oland · Alexander Kirkland · H.B. Warner · Marian Nixon

Synopsis Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Katherine DeMille · Pauline Moore · Allan Lane

Synopsis When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to the current summer Olympic games in Berlin, where myriad spies,...

Direction Jacques Jaccard · Leopold Wharton · Theodore Wharton

Cast Irene Castle · Milton Sills · Warner Oland · Dorothy Green

Synopsis Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.