This week's Chat Meeting feature: "Charlie Chan in Shanghai"!
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Sixty summers young, sixty winters old...brrr."
OUR “NEW” CHAT ROOM: Our NEW Chat Room can be accessed the same way that we accessed our previous version. Just go to our “Chat Room” link at charliechan.info, or use this direct link: http://www.charliechan.info/id17.html
While our “new” Chat Room is not as “fun” as our old Parachat room (sadly, no sound effects!), still, it is proving to be quite functional as far as the “basics” are concerned, and it seems to be working well for the most part.
THIS WEEK: Charlie Chan visits the land of his honorable ancestors, China, as we join him in “Charlie Chan in Shanghai.” A surprise meeting with Number One Son, Lee allows father and son to team up for a very dangerous investigation of a murderous opium smuggling gang!
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “Charlie Chan in Shanghai” (1935; 70 minutes) AND we have as our “extra” presentation, the EIGHTH chapter of the 1943 movie serial, The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack (1943; 19 minutes), which features our Number One Son, Keye Luke AND “Pop,” Sidney Toler in supporting roles!
FILM SUMMARY: Charlie Chan travels to his ancestral homeland, China, at the request of Sir Stanley Woodland, a prominent official in Shanghai, to help break up an opium-smuggling organization. When Chan is honored at a Shanghai banquet, Sir Stanley informs the detective that he has discovered some sinister activities. Before Sir Stanley can share this information he is silenced by a booby-trapped box. With Number One Son, Lee, at his side, Chan seeks to discover the secrets of the smuggling activities in Shanghai as well as the identity of the Sir Stanley's killer.
FILM NOTES: Although the character played by Frederik Vogeding is listed as "Burke" in the onscreen credits, he is called "Ivan Marloff" throughout the dialog of the film.
TIME: We begin with arrivals and greetings at 7:30 EASTERN TIME. Then, we share our “extra” presentation which will be followed at exactly 8:15 when we roll our feature for our Monday evening, “Charlie Chan in Shanghai.”
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 online. Happily, both our feature as well as our extra are available online. Please use the links provided at our Chat Room.
OUR FEBRUARY MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our new February 2019 Poll, located at our Entrance Page (http://www.charliechan.info/index.html)!
OUR CCF CHAT ARCHIVE: Please take a look at our growing collection of CCF Chat Texts from 2018 and this year: http://www.charliechan.info/id630.html MORE TO COME!!!
NEXT WEEK: Please join us on Monday, March 4, as we move on with our Charlie Chan Film Tour for 2019 with “Charlie Chan’s Secret” (1935), as Charlie Chan is called upon by an old friend to investigate the whereabouts of a missing heir.
SO, PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we continue our group tour through the entire Charlie Chan film series…and more…with our feature, “Charlie Chan in Shanghai.”
IF YOU - STILL - HAVE YET TO DOWNLOAD OUR CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY NEWSLETTER: If anyone has yet to access it, Included as an attachment, please find a copy of “The Charlie Chan Family 2018 Newsletter” (Issue No. 1), edited by Lou Armagno, whom we know as HonoluLou. Mr. Armagno, as you will see, put together the contributions of a number of CCF members, creating a masterpiece that will be a shining star in Charlie Chan family lore! If, for any reason, you are unable to access the links provided, please view the copy that was placed into our Study at our Charlie Chan family Home: http://www.charliechan.info/id632.html. You may also access “The Charlie Chan family 2018 Newsletter” at this address online: https://thepostmanonholidayhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/2018-newsletter-master.1.pdf.
