Our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing: "Black Magic" (a.k.a.: "Meeting at Midnight")
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Shady business do not make for sunny life.”
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
THIS WEEK’S PRESENTATIONS: “Black Magic” (a.k.a. “Meeting at Midnight”) (1944; 65 minutes) AND we have as our “extra” presentation, Chapter 3 of the movie serial, “Secret Agent X-9“ (1945; 20 minutes), which features our Number One Son, Keye Luke, as well as our Number Three Son, Benson Fong.
FEATURE SUMMARY: A murder occurs during a séance conducted by a fraudulent medium. Birmingham Brown, who happens to be on the premises when the killing occurs as is Charlie Chan's daughter, Frances. Chan finds himself entangled in a dangerous web as he follows the killer's trail of death in a case that has its origins a decade in the past.
FEATURE NOTES: The working titles of this film were “Murder Chamber” and “Charlie Chan in the Murder Chamber.” It was also reviewed as “Charlie Chan in Black Magic.” The film was later reissued as “Meeting at Midnight,” probably so as to avoid confusion following the 1949 release of the Orson Wells film also titled “Black Magic.” Although a ‘Hollywood Reporter’ news item lists Trevor Bardette in the cast, his participation in the completed film has not been confirmed.
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, “Black Magic.”
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 MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our AUGUST 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, August 12, as we continue together along the road of our Charlie Chan Film Tour, sharing a viewing of “The Jade Mask.”
A CHARLIE CHAN BLOG!: A great 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." Currently featured is a fun celebration of Earl Derr Biggers’ 135th birthday…Take a look! It can be found at this address: https://thepostmanonholiday.com/
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SO, PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we share “Black Magic”…or, if you prefer…”Meeting at Midnight.”
Re: Our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing: "Black Magic" (a.k.a.: "Meeting at Midnight")
Most Honored Rush,
I've run across perhaps a slightly better quality of The Jade Mask...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcigi4B4Viw&list=PLSw44_vYFutvJJbYrZZ-SW8QecgSehGIj&index=30&t=4s
Mark's Chan videos mostly are youtube 480 quality. See you next Monday !
