***SPOILERS*** Chinese/American PI Charlie Chan, Walter Oland, and his #1 son Lee, Keye Luke, are off to the 1936 Berlin Olympics for two different missions. Charlie to find a stolen air guidance system device that can control pilot-less air planes, much like the drones of today, in any future combat missions. As for Lee he's a member of the USA Olympic swimming team looking to win a gold medal for the good o'l USA in the 100 meters dash swimming race. Charlie gets help from Berlin police Captain Strasser, Frederick Vogeding, who's not up to par to Charlie's superior investigation tactics. That leads the very impressed Captain Strasser to admit to Charlie that even though he isn't an Aryan or member of the master race he's a far much better crime investigator then he is. Something that can have Captain Strasser thrown behind bars for disloyalty to his country if his superiors in the Nazi Gestapo ever found out about it.
Charlie gets to the bottom to who stole the guidance device back in Honolulu to a foreign agent of an unmanned country as well as international arms dealer named "The Honorable", as Charlie Chan referees to him, Charles Zaraka, Morgan Wallace. It's "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka's goons who end up kidnapping Charlie's son Lee in order to get the device, that Charlie had since lifted from him, back. Charlie putting his life on the line goes into the lion's den, "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka's hideout, with the device to save his son Lee's life. But unknown to "The Honorable" Zaraka Charlie planted a tracking device inside the guidance device to let the Berlin Police know exactly where he is and hunt down and arrest "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka and his gang.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** The big surprise in all this is who really stole the guidance device and tried to sell it to the highest bidder. It was non other then the person who invented it Mr. Cartwright, John Eldredge, who like the super capitalist swine that he is was more then ready to sell out his country and murder a number of innocent people along the way to make the big buck that he felt the US military wasn't giving him for his gadget. There's also the German airship Hindenberg featured prominent in the movie that Charlie Chan is a passenger on. It caught fire and crashed with all on board on May 6, 1937 outside Lakehurst new Jersey. Just three weeks before the movie "Charlie Chan at the Olympics" was released to the movie going public.
Charlie gets to the bottom to who stole the guidance device back in Honolulu to a foreign agent of an unmanned country as well as international arms dealer named "The Honorable", as Charlie Chan referees to him, Charles Zaraka, Morgan Wallace. It's "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka's goons who end up kidnapping Charlie's son Lee in order to get the device, that Charlie had since lifted from him, back. Charlie putting his life on the line goes into the lion's den, "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka's hideout, with the device to save his son Lee's life. But unknown to "The Honorable" Zaraka Charlie planted a tracking device inside the guidance device to let the Berlin Police know exactly where he is and hunt down and arrest "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka and his gang.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** The big surprise in all this is who really stole the guidance device and tried to sell it to the highest bidder. It was non other then the person who invented it Mr. Cartwright, John Eldredge, who like the super capitalist swine that he is was more then ready to sell out his country and murder a number of innocent people along the way to make the big buck that he felt the US military wasn't giving him for his gadget. There's also the German airship Hindenberg featured prominent in the movie that Charlie Chan is a passenger on. It caught fire and crashed with all on board on May 6, 1937 outside Lakehurst new Jersey. Just three weeks before the movie "Charlie Chan at the Olympics" was released to the movie going public.