FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

bigverybadtom The French Archaeology Society has hired Charlie Chan to fly to Egypt, where the treasures from the recently-discovered tomb of an ancient monarch, intended to go to France, instead wind up in other hands, and Chan is to find out why. Once there, he finds the head of the expedition vanished, fear among the remaining people involved, financial problems having plagued the expedition, and the presence of a drug which may be the cause of many of the problems.Unlike the other Charlie Chan movies I've seen, his relatives have not come along, not even his number one son, the clues and suspects are few, and the solution is easy enough to predict. Stephen Fetchit, as Snowshoes the manservant, is along to provide comic relief. Many other reviews talk about his discomfiting presence, but personally I found his character no worse than I've seen in most 1970's sitcoms.Not the best of the series.

binapiraeus When Professor Arnold discovers the tomb of an Ancient high priest, which probably leads to the treasures of the goddess Sekhmet, he mysteriously disappears. His brother, his daughter and his son have been waiting for news from him for weeks when Charlie Chan arrives with the news that some of the items from the tomb, which were all to be delivered to the French Archaeological Society, have been found in various private collections in Europe; and this, combined with the professor's sudden disappearance, of course leads him to the conclusion that someone from the expedition team wants to make a fortune out of the finds - and much more of the hidden treasures of Sekhmet...A VERY suspenseful, exotic adventure of our Chinese detective, highly dramatic at times, but also with some comical elements, and a very beautiful love story. Warner Oland is once more at his best, just like all the rest of the cast, most of whom regrettably are more or less forgotten today - except for the girl who played the mysterious young Egyptian servant: Rita Cansino - better known as Rita Hayworth...So there are MANY reasons for watching this classic mystery, which is not just another 'whodunit' set in some faraway country, but MUCH more - here, Ancient history meets with modern greed and ruthlessness; and the 'antidote' to it in the shape of a very clever, philosophical and humane Chinaman...

Rindiana Some unbearable racial stereotyping colonialist style mars this already weak entry to the pulpy, but sometimes agreeable Charlie Chan canon.Throw all the Egyptian clichés you can come up with together with all the usual whodunit ingredients, add a predictable plot with bland love interests and a boring denouement, and you get this silly murder mystery. There are certainly many stronger early episodes preferable to this.Oland is as great as always.Not even good enough for rainy Sunday afternoons.3 out of 10 secret tombs

Lechuguilla Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) finds mystery and murder, naturally, in the secret chambers of an Egyptian tomb, amid lots of hocus-pocus about figurines and ornaments with mysterious powers. With a runtime of just 73 minutes the story is rather thin, and the whodunit puzzle isn't very good. But I suspect the film's appeal in 1935 had more to do with the novelty of Egyptian decor and production design than with the film's plot, some of which is not explained. And I did not like the Snowshoes character, at all. He may have been included as comic relief, but there is nothing about him that is funny, and the character is irrelevant to the whodunit puzzle. The actor playing the part whines and mumbles in a most disagreeable manner. I found him truly annoying.The film's B&W cinematography is marginally acceptable. However, in the copy I watched the images were grainy. At the film's beginning, they used stock footage of Egyptian sites to foster the illusion of being in Egypt. Acting ranges from acceptable to laughably melodramatic. The man playing Barry Arnold, in particular, dreadfully overplays his role, with those bug-eyed histrionics.Although "Charlie Chan In Egypt" is not a complete waste of time, there are other films in the Charlie Chan series that are much better.