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OUR CCF MONDAY EVENING CHAT AND FILM VIEWING FOR AUGUST 19, 2019: "The Scarlet Clue"

OUR CCF MONDAY EVENING CHAT AND FILM VIEWING FOR AUGUST 19, 2019

FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “What detective needs is great patience.”

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: “The Scarlet Clue” (1945; 65 minutes) AND we have as our “extra” presentation, Chapter 5 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: Charlie Chan of the Secret Service is searching for the killer of an enemy agent. The trail leads to a radio and television broadcast center, where Number Three Son, Tommy and assistant Birmingham Brown accompany the detective as he winds his way through a host of suspects and hidden dangers.

FEATURE NOTES: The working title of this film was Robot Murder. The title card reads: “Charlie Chan in ‘The Scarlet Clue.’" ‘Hollywood Reporter’ production charts include Harry Bradley and William Gould in the cast, but their participation in the released film has not been confirmed. ‘Hollywood Reporter’ production charts also note that director of photography William Sickner was borrowed by Monogram from Universal to work on this film. The minor role of actor "Horace Carlos" is obviously based on film actor Boris Karloff, while the film's killer wears a mask modeled on actor Rondo Hatton. Modern sources add the following actors to the cast: Charles Jordan (Nelson) and Kernan Cripps (Detective).

WORD OF THE WEEK FROM OUR FILM:
glope - (Informal) A person who gapes in astonishment or fear.
Mrs. Marsh: "Learn how to talk like a human instead of a glope..."

TIME: We begin with arrivals and greetings at 7:30 EASTERN TIME. Then, we share our “extra” presentation, “Secret Agent X-9,” which will be followed at exactly 8:15 when we roll our feature for our Monday evening, “The Jade Mask.”

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 26, as we continue together along the road of our
Charlie Chan Film Tour, we follow Charlie Chan, who revisits a deadly case that reaches back a decade, as we view “The Shanghai Cobra,” my favorite Monogram Chan film…if I may say so!

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/

DO YOU HAVE A POLL QUESTION? Please feel free to suggest a Monthly Poll question! Send your ideas to: charliechanfamily@lyahoo.com!

SO, PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we share “The Scarlet Clue.”

Sincerely,
Rush Glick