As we ring in the final month of the year, we race toward the finish line for this year’s Charlie Chan Film Tour with a shared viewing of “The Golden Eye,” starring Roland Winters, and featuring Victor Sen Yung as Number Two Son, Tommy, with Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown.
Also, as our weekly “extra,” we will be sharing another of the cartoons from the 16-episode cartoon series from 1972 which featured KEYE LUKE as the voice of Charlie Chan, “The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan.” The episode we will be sharing is “The Mardi Gras Caper.”
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “The Golden Eye” (1948; 69 minutes) …AND “The Mardi Gras Caper” (1972; 22 minutes).
FILM SUMMARY: In San Francisco's Chinatown, an Arizona mine owner named Manning visits a curio shop seeking help from Charlie Chan because he believes that someone is out to kill him. While in the shop, Manning is shot at by an unseen assailant. Later, Chan agrees to help Manning. Posing as a dealer in oriental curios, Chan travels to the Manning home where he finds that Manning has been gravely injured in a mysterious accident in his mine. Very suspicious of the situation, Chan, along with his number two son Tommy and assistant Birmingham Brown proceed with what proves to be a very dangerous investigation.
FILM NOTES: The working title of this film was “The Mystery of the Golden Eye.” The opening title card reads: “Charlie Chan in ‘The Golden Eye.’" The Call Bureau Cast Service lists Herman Cantor and Sam McDaniel in the cast, but they do not appear in the finished film that we have available today. Copyright records list George L. Spaulding as Dr. Groves, but the role was played by Sam Flint. Richard Loo, Barbara Jean Wong, and Tom Tyler are also listed in the cast, but they do not appear in the finished film.
TIME: We begin with arrivals and greetings at 7:30 EASTERN TIME. Then, we share our special short “extra” which will be followed at exactly 8:15 when we roll our feature for this Monday evening, “The Golden Eye.”
LOCATION: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room, which is accessed at http://www.charliechan.info/id17.html.
IF YOU LACK A COPY OF OUR FILM: Often our features can be found available online. Good fortune once again smiles, as our featured film is available in TWO PARTS online as these addresses: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x297jjm
And, for our Chan cartoon, you may use this link: https://watchcartoonsonline.to/watch/the-amazing-chan-and-the-chan-clan-episode-12-the-mardi-gras-caper/
OUR MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our DECEMBER 2017 Poll, located at our Entrance Page (www.charliechan.info)!
NEXT WEEK: Join us as we begin December with “The Feathered Serpent,” starring Roland Winters and featuring BOTH Keye Luke and Victor Sen Yung along with Mantan Moreland!
SO, please join in on the Monday fun as we watch and share “The Golden Eye.”
