Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
* * 1/2
There's a pretty good mystery to this one, with a solid batch of possible suspects. (I was wrong about both of my picks. Mrs. 1SO got it fairly quickly.) This biggest problem with this outing is the number of racial stereotypes. Never mind Charlie Chan, there are buck-toothed Egyptian swindlers and Stepin Fetchit doing his thing, which always bothers me. Compared to them, Rita Hayworth is actually credible as a dark-haired Egyptian maid. Heck, even the rest of the cast who are white and playing British are a cartoonish, pith helmet wearing, stiff upper lip, cuppa tea types.