Behind That Curtain is a 1929 mystery film

Mystery film

Mystery film is a sub-genre of the more general category of crime film and at times the thriller genre. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of a crime by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction.The...

 directed by Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings , born Irving Camisky in New York City, New York was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer....

, starring Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...

 and featuring Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

. It was the first Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919. Loosely based on Honolulu detective Chang Apana, Biggers conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes, such as villains like Fu Manchu...

 film to be made at Fox Studios. It was based on the novel of the same name

Behind That Curtain

Behind That Curtain is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers.-Plot summary:It is set almost exclusively in California , and tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a detective who is pursuing the long-cold trail of a murderer...

. Charlie Chan 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

William Fox (producer)

William Fox born Fried Vilmos was a pioneering Hungarian American motion picture executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s...

 chose this film to open the palatial Fox Theatre

Fox Theatre (San Francisco)

The Fox Theatre was a 4,651 seat movie palace located at 1350 Market Street in San Francisco, California. It was designed by the noted theater architect, Thomas W. Lamb...

 in San Francisco on June 28, 1929.

Cast

• Warner Baxter
  Warner Baxter
  Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
  
   - Col. John Beetham
• Lois Moran
  Lois Moran
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   - Eve Mannering Durand
• Gilbert Emery
  Gilbert Emery
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   - Sir Frederick Bruce (as Gilbert Emory)
• Claude King
  Claude King
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   - Sir George Mannering
• Philip Strange - Eric Durand
• Boris Karloff
  Boris Karloff
  William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...
  
   - Beetham's Manservant
• Jamiel Hasson - Sahib Hana
• Peter Gawthorne
  Peter Gawthorne
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   - British Police Inspector
• John Rogers - Alf Pornick
• Edgar Norton - Hilary Galt
• Frank Finch Smiles - Galt's Clerk
• Mercedes De Valasco - Nuna
• E. L. Park - Police Insp. Charlie Chan
  Charlie Chan
  Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919. Loosely based on Honolulu detective Chang Apana, Biggers conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes, such as villains like Fu Manchu...
  
  
• Kathrin Clare Ward - Eve's Landlady (uncredited)