Eran Trece

Charlie Chan and Inspector Duff

In Spanish it means “There were thirteen,” Eran Trece, and that’s the best title to use for a film originally called Charlie Chan Carries On. The original US version, in English, has been lost to eternity, it seems. But we still have this Spanish version, shot on the same sets with different actors and crew but working from the same story and using a lot of the same stock footage to set the scene. It’s a very trad whodunit about a gaggle of rich people travelling around the world on a grand tour. The action kicks off in London, where one of the party has wound up dead. There were 13… until old … Read more