Happy Birthday, BORIS KARLOFF: "Mr. Wong, Detective"
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.”
THIS WEEK: We celebrate the birthday of none other than Boris Karloff, who appeared prominently in “Charlie Chan at the Opera,” and was also seen in “Behind That Curtain,” a proto-Chan film. For his birthday, we will watch, as is our custom, Mr. Karloff as he portrays “Mr. Wong, Detective.”
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “Mr. Wong, Detective” (1938; 69 minutes) AND we continue our “extra” presentation with another cartoon episode of “The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan,” starring Keye Luke, who provides the voice of Charlie Chan: “The Mummy’s Tomb“ (1972; 20 minutes). (Unfortunately, with our online versions of our Chan Clan cartoons seen through YouTube, commercials are sometimes automatically inserted at the beginning and each 5 minutes.)
FILM SUMMARY: When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers an international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim's company.
FILM NOTES: The plot of “Mr. Wong, Detective,” the first entry in the Mr. Wong film series, provided the basis for the Charlie Chan film, “Docks of New Orleans,” which we viewed last week. Of note: actor Lee Tung Foo is seen in BOTH films.
TIME: We begin with arrivals and greetings at 7:30 EASTERN TIME. Then, we share our “extra” which will be followed at exactly 8:15 when we roll our feature for our Monday evening, “Docks of New Orleans.”
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, happily, this week’s feature IS available for viewing at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFDjIPhxueE
For our “extra,” a Charlie Chan cartoon, “The Mummy’s Tomb,” you may use this link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42hy2w
OUR MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our November 2018 Poll, located at our Entrance Page (http://www.charliechan.info/index.html)!
NEXT WEEK: Please join us on Monday, November 26 as we share “The Shanghai Chest.”
SO, PLEASE JOIN US as we commemorate the birthday of our fiendish friend, Boris Karloff as we enjoy “Mr. Wong, Detective.”
