Warner Oland's second appearance as Chan, and the only entry shot on location in Honolulu, in April-May 1931.
Earl Derr Biggers visited the Hawaiian set, presenting a copy of his 1929 source novel to Chang Apana, the local police detective who inspired him to create Chan.
Of the five Warner Oland Charlie Chan films based on the original Earl Derr Biggers novels, only this one still survives. The other four are believed to have been lost in one of two fires, one in the thirties and the other in the sixties.
The fifth of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies starring Warner Oland and others.
The second of three Chans directed by Hamilton MacFadden, who also appeared in three.