Our Monday Evwening Chat: "Charlie Chan on Broadway"
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Keep eyes open and mouth shut.”
OUR CHAT ROOM: Our Chat Room can be accessed the same way that we accessed by going to our “Chat Room” link at charliechan.info, or use this direct link: http://www.charliechan.info/id17.html
While our “new” but reliable Chat Room is not as “fun” as our old Parachat room that was discontinued earlier this year (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 and Number One Son, Lee, return to the United States following their adventure within and around the Berlin Olympic Games. Stopping in New York City on their way back home to Honolulu, father and son are suddenly caught up in a dangerous web of mob secrets and murder!
OUR PRESENTATIONS: “Charlie Chan on Broadway” (1937; 65 minutes) AND we have as our “extra” presentation, the FIRST chapter of the World War II movie serial, “The Green Hornet Strikes Again!“ (1940; 21 minutes), which features our Number One Son, Keye Luke, as the Green Hornet’s assistant, Kato!
FILM SUMMARY: Billie Bronson, having left the country hurriedly a year earlier when sought as an important witness in a political scandal, has returned to New York City to "blow the lid off the town." Later, Billie is mysteriously murdered and Charlie Chan is summoned from a police banquet in his honor. While seeking a motive for her murder, a second killing is discovered in the hotel room of Chan and son Lee. A package is missing from the detective's trunk and it is realized that it must have contained Billie Bronson's inflammatory diary. Chan must piece together a string of clues in order to find the killer.
FILM NOTES: Thomas Beck is listed as a cast member in early ‘Hollywood Reporter’ cast charts, but his participation in the final film is doubtful.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: For detailed information on our feature, “Charlie Chan on Broadway,” please go to: http://www.charliechan.info/id33.html
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 on Broadway.”
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 APRIL MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our new APRIL 2019 POLL, found as you scroll down 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 previous years and this year: http://www.charliechan.info/id630.html
NEXT WEEK: Please join us on Monday, April 15, as we move along on our Charlie Chan Film Tour with “Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo” (1937).
A NEW CHARLIE CHAN BLOG!: A NEW blog site, The Postman on Holiday, offered by our own Lou Armagno which is: "A place to explore all things surrounding Detective Charlie Chan, his creator Earl Derr Biggers, and their connection with Hawaii, Cleveland, and mystery fiction." It can be found at this address: https://thepostmanonholiday.home.blog/ A special tip of the Panama Hat to anyone who can tell us two things: 1) Which Chan story by Earl Derr Biggers inspired the name of Lou’s blog site? 2) What is Charlie Chan’s exact quote from that story? CLUE! The answers can be unearthed at both the blog site and our CCF Home,” charliechan.info! (BONUS: In which Charlie Chan film does the quotation in question 2 is the same aphorism stated in a slightly changed form?) Give your answers at our Monday Evening Chat! Happy hunting!
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 on Broadway.”
