The House Without a Key 1926

Synopsis:

A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'

Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Written by: Earl Derr Biggers & Frank Leon Smith
Runtime: 210 minutes
Cast:
Allene Ray
Allene Ray
Carry Egan 
Walter Miller
Walter Miller
John Quincy Winterclip 
E.H. Calvert
E.H. Calvert
Dan Winterclip 
Betty Caldwell
Betty Caldwell
Barbara Winterclip 
Natalie Warfield
Natalie Warfield
Minerva Winterclip 
Jack Pratt
Jack Pratt
James Egan