WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

gakibler I don't comment on many movies, but felt compelled to on this one. I have nearly every Chan film made, (Oland, Toler, Winters), and Winters doesn't come near par, in this one. Good: Keye Luke & Victor Sen Yung, maybe Mantan.. Bad: Everything else. Seems like actors are simply reading their lines. "Action" scenes look like a elementary school play. This one just dragged on. I've made it through it once.

magicshadows-90098 Here, Charlie and crew (Mantan Moreland; Keye Luke & Sen Yung), are on vacation in Mexico. They stumble upon a man, who is in terrible condition, walking in a nearby field. Charlie takes him into his auto and heads quickly to the nearest city for help. The man is delirious so Chan can get little information out of him other than the fact he was held prisoner and he was on an expedition hunting for a lost Aztec treasure.Chan arrives in a nearby city and soon meets members of an expedition who are also hunting for this lost treasure. In fact the sick man is a member of their group. The ailing man and another archaeologist went missing during their search. Before the ill man can explain what happened he is murdered.Charlie and company join the expedition with the purpose of finding the missing archaeologist and perhaps the lost treasure. Much is made out of the fact that this film features the return of Charlie's son Lee (Keye Luke) and the only teaming of Charlie's Number One and Number Two sons. It's interesting but the screenwriters don't pull off the union effectively. Lee is much more domineering here than he ever was in the Fox films. So it is a bit of a miss, but still of interest to a long time Chan fan.Lastly, I'll comment on the other reviews who need to call the Monogram Winter's films garbage. Yes, they don't have the skilled writers of the Fox series. Yes, the production values don't match Fox, and the plots can be a little oddball. But these are solid little mysteries and quite good compared with other independent studios.

bkoganbing This Charlie Chan film is unique in that both Victor Sen Yung and Keye Luke appear in it together. During the climax with the bad guys they handle the rough stuff to bring the culprits to justice and Roland Winters is going to need both of them despite them constantly coming to the wrong conclusions. Charlie and the boys and chauffeur Mantan Moreland are on a holiday in Mexico when they hear of the disappearance of an old friend of the Chan family, an archeology professor who has disappeared while looking for Aztec treasure, the equivalent of King Tut's tomb in the western hemisphere. They find a colleague of his friend out on the desert, but no sooner do they rescue him than he's murdered. Another murder follows and the the Chan family leads a search party out on the Mexican desert.This film is more of manhunt than a mystery at least to us because the brains behind all the villainy is revealed just about halfway through the film. Why that was done who knows because it robbed us of any suspense. That's a pity because for Monogram Charlie Chan feature it's not a bad one.

Michael O'Keefe Oriental detective Charlie Chan(Roland Winters)with chauffeur Birmingham Brown(Mantan Moreland)and both #1 son Lee(Keye Luke)and #2 son Tommy(Victor Sen Yung)is on vacation headed to Mexico City when a struggling man collapses in their view. The man is Prof. Farnsworth(Leslie Denison), who has been missing since his search for fabled Aztec treasures. Before being stabbed to death he reveals his son is held hostage and his daughter Joan(Beverly Jons)hires Chan to now find him. Since Winters signed on as the revered Chan the franchise has rapidly lost enthusiasm and popularity. You would think that the one positive thing being the first movie with Luke and Yung together would save face; but the predictable script only have the brothers providing some comic relief with Brown. Other players: Robert Livingston, Carol Forman and George J. Lewis.