FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Too many hands sometime spoil pudding."
THIS WEEK: Charlie Chan, along with Number Three Son, Tommy and assistant Birmingham Brown, become embroiled in a “cobra killer” case stretching back to the then-embattled city of Shanghai, China, in 1937. Now, eight years later, espionage, danger, and potential death lurk at every turn for the detective and his team!
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “The Shanghai Cobra” (1945; 64 minutes) …as well as our sixth (as part five is missing) installment of “The Baffling Murder of Colonel Willoughby,” (Radio Drama: 1936; 15 minutes).
FILM SUMMARY: Charlie Chan is sent by the government to investigate several murders connected with a bank where a vital store of radium is kept. A number of employees of the bank have been killed by an injection of cobra venom. Chan remembers a similar case back in Shanghai in 1937, but the suspect in those murders, his face disfigured in an explosion, escaped. Number Tree Son, Tommy, and assistant Birmingham Brown help the detective as the trio places themselves in mortal danger as they track down the illusive "Cobra Killer."
FILM NOTES: The title card for this film reads: Charlie Chan in "The Shanghai Cobra." In The Shanghai Cobra, we see an odd one-way video jukebox operated from a distant location. This is very probably an adaptation of the idea of "Soundies" which were popular during the early to mid-1940s. Soundies, precursors of today's music videos, were viewed on special 16 mm rear-projected machines called Panorams. These machines were located in bars, restaurants, nightclubs, etc.
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 Shanghai Cobra.”
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, and, I am pleased to announce that our feature IS available online at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgaENlDyx8
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NEXT WEEK: Join us on Monday, September 3, as we share a viewing of “The Red Dragon.” We also continue with the conclusion of our Charlie Chan radio mystery, “The Baffling Murder of Colonel Willoughby” as an “extra” prior to the viewing of our film!
SO, PLEASE JOIN US for our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we share “The Shanghai Cobra.”
