Warner Oland. My favorite. I always liked the phrase excuse please. Loved it. The phrase contradiction plrase was just as good. Mr Brown was a great sidekick in many Chan movies.
I have always loved Charlie Chan movies and I believe I was about 5 years old when I first saw one and I am 66 now and still watch them all of the time. Thanks to Earl Der Bigger for a great character.
Thank you for the informative film about the great Mr. Chan. I heard about Charlie Chan throughout my childhood since he was one of the famous detectives of radio, TV, & films but never saw or heard one of his programs or films. Then a few years ago I came across his movies when I was in my 70s. I have enjoyed every one of them & have started watching the shorter TV programs that came later. Although they are shorter & not as well done, I still enjoy seeing Charlie Chan solve mysteries & he has joined Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, & Miss Marple as one of my favorite detectives!
I am 75 and have been watching Charlie Chan movies since I was a kid. They were on late night TV in the 50s and 60s. I always had a love of old movies. With the advent of movies at home, and now YT, I am binge watching all the Chan films I can find. I just discovered the New Adventures of Charlie Chan, English, 1957. Once I see them all I will start over. You should read about how elegantly Toler conducted himself at the end of his life, in his last film.
Love charlie Chan movies. He always figures out the guilty party. He goes on different adventures andl learns new ways of catching the guilty person or persons.
This was a real pleasure to watch. It isn't easy to praise entertainment like this in today's politically correct society, and I'm sneakily proud to know that others enjoy the fun and satisfaction of Charlie Chan as much as I do! So glad so many films are on RU-vid!
Charlie Chan, Mr Moto, Mr Wong and all the non-PC films of old are our shared experiences and history. Beloved by many, even young viewers. I first enjoyed them on Sunday afternoons on the Zenith or Philips TV.
@@susancorvalan6765 yep i have read the Five mr moto Original novels before i saw any movies - ¡grab those! . i also read the Five masterpiece dashiel hammett novels : the maltese falcon, the continental op ( oh that ? is the daddy of kurosawa and mifune's YOJIMBO - you know the for a few dollars more vershan. ) i lost my library to gentrification in miami - homeless now but hope to get the original charlie novels On Paper... grab the precious few dashiels you can tell he had lots more from The Source but accusations of "communist" killed those... love pray
Always a pleasure to hear some of the history of a show that was a big part of my childhood’s entertainment history. Love all the industries big names & their crossover, like J Carroll Naish being the murderer in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) than becoming the protagonist in The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957-8). TY for sharing. Many Blessings All 🙏🇺🇸
what a magnificent documentary thankyou for posting. i was born in 1949 the year of the final charlie chan movie, but i have loved them all. also the habit of getting all the suspects together for the finale, followed by much later tv series. poirot and death in paradise.
Old movie like the great Charlie Chan series makes remarkable reminisce of the past, present, and the future, I still like to watch this movie now in the year of 2021. It was moral aspect and respect teaches how to catch a murderer. How wonderful we have these movies that last forever, like the movies series of 'Hercule Poirot' from novelist Agatha Christie.
no mention of Mantan Moreland.! he was comic relief for all three chans. and he featured in his own films too. not enough was mentioned how CC film gave oppertunitues to minority actors. black, chinese, etc.
I love these movies. I still think they could reboot it with Jackie Chan. His natural accent when speaking English would be better than the scripted pigeon English. And they could get a Chinese or Chinese-American writer-ditector. The things that really made the character great was that he was Chinese, low-key, wiley, clever, underestimated at times and invariably the smartest guy in the room. I do think it would be best to do a reboot as a 1930s or 40s period piece.
Accoring to the March 17, 1969 issue of the "SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NEWS DIGEST", the following was mentioned about Zavala-Riss when they announced their intention to sell stock in their organization: "Organized under New York law in May 1964, the company produces industrial films, documentaries, television shows, trailers and promotional films , and it also engages in dubbing English dialogue in feature foreign films and editing films." Pablo Zavala and Sheldon Riss also provided facilities for the voice actors who dubbed the English dialogue for "ASTRO BOY", "GIGANTOR", "MARINE BOY", and "SPEED RACER".
As for history, the saddest moment for me was in "City In Darkness," when it was announced at the end of the movie, there was to be no war. And they all rejoiced, but Charlie offerred his grim Bon Mot about the spider and the fly. So tragic they were in reality then, totally innocent of the horror just around the bend. I'm so surprised this didn't include the great Mantan Moreland in his roll as Mr. Chan's driver, Birmingham Brown. He was involved in so many comedy interactions with number one Son, and their characters were great friends in these movies. In one Chan movie, "Dark Alibi," he did his famous comedy routine with Ben Carter, Interrupted Talk. They perfected it vaudeville. When I think of Charlie, I can hear Mantan calling..."Mr. Chan...Oh Mr. Chan!"
Names like George Brent... and even moreso Oscar Levant are unknown to the newer generations... Sad.. very sad. Now it's all rappers gonna do they hos.
My first exposure to Charlie Chan was the Sidney Toler movies broadcast late at night. I later encountered the Warner Oland movies and learned to appreciate his take on the character as well.
"A hero who never kissed a girl..." immediately after (incorrectly) telling us he's supporting a dozen children (it's fourteen at peak, they even do the head count scene from Circus later on). Got news for you pal, those kids weren't adopted. Plenty of kissing going on in the Chan household.
FUN FACT: Around the 39:00 mark, that is NOT the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge, it is the unfinished Bay Bridge. All in all, a pretty good recap, though.
I thank you for remembering Jimmy Chan #2 son I love everything about Charlie Chan movies. I cry a bit when I'm watching them can't help it. I always watch Charlie with my mother and even my kids love Charlie. I watch about 5 or 7 Charlie Chan movies a day . No fooling I love them so much that is why I love what you said about Jimmy Chan. I know the day I die I will be watching my beautiful Charlie Chan Movies. Thank you Kim for remembering the Charlie Chan movies and all the great actors that made them so good. I have love for all the people that brought Charlie to life. plus I loved all the actors who played Charlie Chan. Everyone of them God Bless. From Linda
I think the reason that no one else has been a very successful Charlie Chan has more to do with Warren Oland he literally he didn't just study the character he made the character his own in many ways he learned Chinese he learned to read it and write it and speak it and he wanted to bring the character in make him not some ridiculous figure who quotes Confucius and other little fortune cookie sayings he wanted to bring the character to show the character for what he is he uses those words to express the very things he cannot express and it has more to do with the fact of how he may have learned English. He didn't just spell lines as if they were fortune cookies he literally used those lines as a means to express what he was thinking in the most concise way because English was really his second language some people do have modes of expression that they use which we would find absurd or even stereotype of people but only wanted to make him not a stereotype he wanted to make him a character respectable character not something to be mocked at and he did it in a way that made you really believe he was Charlie Chan in fact keye Luke who played number one son says that no other actor in his mind has ever been able to basically be Charlie Chan and he's not criticizing them as actors he says that they are okay actors but they are just acting they were never really the character whereas Warren Oland made the character himself.
Well done. One must appreciate how and under what circumstances these films were made. I am disgusted with all the political correctness by the left wing political correctness crowd. They are turning out to be the Red Guard under Mao.
well just amazoned the five original novels excuse please: grab the dashiel hammitt and mr moto masterpieces only One maltese falcon and The Novels Are Better..
26:50 Sounds like the narrator really misses this kind of racist stereotyping, doesn't it? Meanwhile in that whole role call of famed actors there's not a mention of Keye Luke or Mantan Moreland. Both of them were consistently stuck in roles far below their actual level of talent and they still managed to steal every scene they're in together, and a fair number of ones where it's just one of them. One of the best on-screen duos of the era, completely ignored here because of their race. What's the matter, Mister Narrator, was the Birmingham Brown role insufficiently demeaning a role for you that you had to resort to using the far less talented Lincoln Perry's sole appearance in the series? And of course he's strangely silent on the subject of Chan being played solely by white actors, because acknowledging the yellowface might make someone uncomfortable. Honestly, I'm glad this and the original films are still available. Lots of people these days call for total erasure of racist portrayals, but keeping them around to showcase how terrible Hollywood (and the national) attitudes toward non-white actors were in this era is part of what keeps pushing us to be better in the future. Forgetting the sins of the past will only lead to repeating them.
