For a change Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is the target in this film. McBirney (Marc Lawrence) has been convicted and sentenced to the electric chair thanks to Charlie but he absconds from the court house.
He hides at the crime wax museum of Dr Cream (C. Henry Gordon), who has a secret side line in plastic surgery for the criminal fraternity. McBirney, now bandaged up, concocts a plan to lure Charlie Chan to the museum where he can kill him. His elaborate theatrical plan A doesn't work (though someone else dies) but locked in the wax museum, with a cast of various character types, on a stormy night the danger is not yet over for Charlie!
This is a fun film with plenty of dark (though frequently absurd) atmosphere. The wax figures from the world of law and order and crime add to the fun, including a wax figure of Charlie Chan which proves useful to Charlie and his Number Two Son's (Victor Sen Yung) plan to uncover the murderer. One of the best Charlie Chan films.
