Our Monday Evening CCF Chat: "Charlie Chan at the Olympics"
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Good hunter never warn tiger of trap.”
Happy Easter and a wonderful Passover to all...
THIS WEEK, the trail of murder and international intrigue begins in Charlie Chan's “backyard” of Honolulu, leading all the way to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin! Can Chan and Number One Son, Lee, survive this, one of the most potentially deadly cases in the detective’s career?
Preceding our Charlie Chan feature, our weekly “extra,” will be another chapter, episode 23) of the 1936 radio dramatization of “The Landini Murder Case,” an adaptation, of Earl Derr Biggers’ “Keeper of the Keys,” the only Biggers Chan Story never to have been made into a film, starring Walter Connolly.
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “Charlie Chan at the Olympics” (1937; 71 minutes) …AND “The Landini Murder Case,” Episode 23 (Radio Drama: 1936; 15 minutes).
FILM SUMMARY: During flight tests over Honolulu an experimental airplane is hijacked and its pilot murdered. When the missing plane is chanced upon by Charlie Chan and son Charlie, Jr., it is discovered that the new guidance device, designed to allow military planes to fly unmanned, is missing. The detective traces the strategically important invention to the summer Olympic Games in Berlin, where spies, enemy agents, and other criminals are trying to obtain it, intent on selling it to another government. Chan's son, Lee, a member of the U.S. Olympic swim team, is on hand to help his father recover the device and solve the mystery.
FILM NOTES: This film contains newsreel footage of the dirigible ‘Hindenburg’ which exploded only two weeks before the release of “Charlie Chan at the Olympics,” as well as several highlights of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, including a sequence featuring American runner Jesse Owens participating in the 4x100 relay. John Carradine is listed as a cast member in ‘Hollywood Reporter’ production charts, but his participation in the final film has not been confirmed.
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, “Charlie Chan at the Olympics.”
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. Once again, we are blessed by good fortune as our feature IS available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DAkRiFM9w
And, for our Charlie Chan radio drama, you may use this link: https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/crime/charlie-chan/charlie-chan-23-landini
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NEXT WEEK: Join us on April 9 as we join Charlie Chan and Number One Son, Lee, in “Charlie Chan on Broadway.”
SO, PLEASE JOIN US this week as we share “Charlie Chan at the Olympics”!
