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This Week: "Eran Trece"..."There Were Thirteen"...Monday Evening, January 8!

FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Sometime dull stone make very sharp knife.”

WELCOME, as we move into the first month of our yearlong Charlie Chan Film Tour for 2018! This week, we will be sharing “Eran Trece” (“There Were Thirteen”), the Spanish language “copy” of the fist actual film in the Chan series proper, “Charlie Chan Carries On.” As the latter movie is one of the four “lost” Charlie Chan pictures, we are very fortunate to have available to us a very reasonable “facsimile,” which stars Manuel Arbo as Charlie Chan. A nearly identical script was used, and the same sets and stock footage were most probably employed, so, if we use our imagination, and picture Warner Oland saying Mr. Arbo’s dialogue, we have the next best thing, perhaps!

Along with our Charlie Chan feature, our weekly “extra,” is the 1936 radio dramatization of “The Landini Murder Case,” which is an adaptation, starring Walter Connolly, of Earl Derr Biggers’ “Keeper of the Keys,” the only Biggers Chan Story never to have been made into a film. We continue the adventure with Episode 10 (the first eight are presently lost to us, unfortunately).

OUR PRESENTATIONS: “Eran Trece” (1931; 79 minutes) …AND “The Landini Murder Case, Episode 10” (1936; 15 minutes).

FILM SUMMARY: Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective, and a friend of Charlie Chan, is pursuing a murderer who is a part of an around-the-world tour group. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot and wounded by the killer. With Duff in critical condition, Charlie Chan carries on the pursuit for his fallen friend.

FILM NOTES: “Eran Trece” (pronounced: “Err-ahn Tray-say”) was the Spanish language version of “Charlie Chan Carries On,” using Spanish-speaking actors and actresses in its cast, and following the original script, with minor changes. This was the only Spanish version of a film from the Charlie Chan series. Some sources erroneously include Luana Alaniz in the cast of Eran Trece. In his autobiography, L. B. Abbott notes that he assisted photographer Sidney Wagner on “Eran Trece.” “Eran Trece” was the only Spanish version in the Charlie Chan series.

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, “Eran Trece.”

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. Happily, our featured film IS available online at this address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMm5j77kw0

And, for our Chan radio drama, you may use this link: https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/crime/charlie-chan/charlie-chan-10-landini

THIS WEEK’S IMAGE: (Please see attachment). This week’s image, a screen capture, shows Charlie Chan and Inspector Duff traveling the streets of Honolulu.

OUR MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our January 2018 Poll, located at our Entrance Page (http://www.charliechan.info/index.html)!

NEXT WEEK: Join us on Monday, January 15, as we share “The Black Camel,” starring Warner Oland in our earliest available appearance as Charlie Chan, and, featuring Bela Lugosi!

SO, see you as we return to our regular evening (Monday) for “Eran Trece”…”There Were Thirteen”…

Sincerely,

Rush Glick

Re: This Week: "Eran Trece"..."There Were Thirteen"...Monday Evening, January 8!

Rush, in a somewhat related issue, I remember a discussion years ago on the "Charlie Chan Message Board" about a Mexican-made Chan film. This movie is also in Spanish dialogue, and is apparently not "lost". Someone claimed to have seen it on a South American TV station in the past. Do you know anything about this film?

Re: This Week: "Eran Trece"..."There Were Thirteen"...Monday Evening, January 8!

Dear John,

First, I apologize for the delay in desponding, as I missed your post.

There are two other Spanish language films based on Charlie Chan that I know of, and the information, at least what is available, can be seen at our "Other Charlie Chan Films" section at out site.

The first was a Cuban-made movie, "La Serpiente Roja" ("The Red Serpent") from 1937 with a "cousin" of Charlie Chan, Li Chan Po. You can see a trailer for this film at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7sjw8ApPGxhaFNwdExQdFMyUUk/view

The other is the Mexican production, "El Monstruo en la Sombra" ("The Monster in the Shadows") from 1955.

I hope that this helps!

Take care, and thank you...

Sincerely,
Rush