Behind That Curtain - FREE MOVIE - HD REMASTERED - Starring Warner Baxter and Lois Moran

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Behind That Curtain is a 1929 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Warner Baxter, Lois Moran and Gilbert Emery. It was the first Charlie Chan film to be made. It was based on the 1928 novel of the same name. Charlie Chan, who is played by Korean-American actor E. L. Park, gets one mention early in the film, then makes a few momentary appearances after 75 minutes. Producer William Fox chose this film to open the palatial Fox Theatre in San Francisco on June 28, 1929.

Synopsis
In London a fortune hunter Eric Durand is romancing the wealthy Sir George Mannering's niece Eve. He murders the solicitor who has hired by Mannering to investigate him, but is thwarted when explorer and old family friend Colonel John Beetham takes her away to British India. Later she leaves Beetham and goes to San Francisco, where she is followed by the dogged Sir Frederick Bruce of Scotland Yard who has Durand in his sights.

Cast
Warner Baxter as Col. John Beetham
Lois Moran as Eve Mannering Durand
Gilbert Emery as Sir Frederick Bruce
Claude King as Sir George Mannering
Philip Strange as Eric Durand
Boris Karloff as Beetham's Manservant
Jamiel Hasson as Sahib Hana
Peter Gawthorne as British Police Inspector
John Rogers as Alf Pornick
Edgar Norton as Hilary Galt
E.L. Park as Police Insp. Charlie Chan