FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Very difficult to estimate depth of well by size of bucket.”
Continuing along on the final lap of our Charlie Chan Film Tour for 2017 we will be sharing a viewing of “The Feathered Serpent,” starring Roland Winters, and featuring Victor Sen Yung as Number Two Son, Tommy, Keye Luke as Number one Son, Lee, and Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown. This film marks the return of Keye Luke to the Charlie Chan film series following a decade-long absence! This is also the first and only time that sons One and Two were featured together.
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 Gypsy Caper.”
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “The Feathered Serpent” (1948; 60 minutes) …AND “The Gypsy Caper” (1972; 22 minutes).
FILM SUMMARY: In San Pablo, Mexico, an expedition prepares to look for two missing archeologists, Professors Scott and Farnsworth, who had been searching for the lost Aztec Temple of the Sun. The two men have now been missing for two months. Charlie Chan, who is on his way to Mexico City for a vacation with two of his sons, Number One Son, Lee and Number Two Son, Tommy plus chauffeur and associate, Birmingham Brown, finds Professor Scott delirious as he collapses in a field near the road to San Pablo. Later, in San Pablo, Scott explains that after he and Farnsworth had found the temple, they were held as hostages and were forced to unearth a fortune in Aztec jade and gold. However, before Scott can name his captor, the lights go out and he is murdered with a knife. A search party, including Chan, his sons, and Birmingham, is organized out to look for Farnsworth and the lost temple.
FILM NOTES: The opening title card of this film reads: “Charlie Chan in ‘The Feathered Serpent.’” This is the only film in which Charlie Chan's number one and number two sons actively work together with their father on a case. It is also the final appearance in a Charlie Chan film by Victor Sen Yung (Sen Yung). The plot of this film was based on that of the 1937 movie, “The Riders of the Whistling Skull” (which, interestingly, featured Robert Livingston who later appeared as John Stanley in the Charlie Chan version).
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 Feathered Serpent.”
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. SADLY, good fortune hides her face, as our featured film is NOT available online.
However, for our Chan cartoon, you may use this link: https://watchcartoonsonline.to/watch/the-amazing-chan-and-the-chan-clan-episode-13-the-gypsy-caper/
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NEXT WEEK: Join us as we feature “The Sky Dragon,” starring Roland Winters and featuring Keye Luke with Mantan Moreland!
SO, please join in on the Monday fun as we watch and share “The Feathered Serpent.”
