Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)

'Charlie Chan at the Race Track' keeps up the quality of the previous entry 'Charlie Chan at the Circus' and if anything is a little better, certainly there is more to the plot here. Chan is investigating the death of a friend which leads him to a scheme to manipulate betting odds at horse racing. Though  centered on horse racing close to half of the film takes place on an ocean liner. There is a supporting black character here who is pretty darn racist, which makes an interesting contrast to when Key Luke uses the racism of others, by effecting pigeon English, to enable him to set up a distraction that allows his father to unfix the gangsters scheme. **1/2