Writing

John Larkin

Born 1901-11-30 · New York, New York

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island poster
6.7

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939

Dead Men Tell poster
6.5

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.

Dead Men Tell

1941

Two Weeks with Love poster
6.4

The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.

Two Weeks with Love

1950

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum poster
7.7

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

1940

Circumstantial Evidence poster
5.2

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

Circumstantial Evidence

1945

Charlie Chan in Panama poster
6.8

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

Charlie Chan in Panama

1940

City of Chance poster
5.6

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

City of Chance

1940

Carnival in Costa Rica poster
7.0

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Carnival in Costa Rica

1947