The twenty-eighth of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies.
The character played by Lenita Lane "Anne Bonney" is the same name as a famous female pirate. She sailed with and was married to Calico Jack Rackham. Probably the misnamed Calico Jim in one of the paintings shown by Miss Nodbury to Charlie.
When Charlie is examining the ship on the top deck it is broad daylight. In the very next shot he is on the pier and it is night.
George Reeves and Kay Aldredge had previously worked together in "Nyoka and the Tiger Men".
This film was first telecast in Portland OR Saturday 28 November 1953 on KOIN (Channel 6), in Detroit Monday 30 November 1953 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in New York City Thursday 4 February 1954 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Dayton Tuesday 23 February 1954 on WLW-D (Channel 2), in Los Angeles Saturday 3 July 1954 on KNBH (Channel 4), and in San Francisco Tuesday 16 July 1955 on KRON (Channel 4).