FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Levity is a great cure-all.”

OUR CONTINUING SAGA… Our Charlie Chan Family Website has, for over 20 years, been supported by Tripod, a Website-building support that offered “Trellix” as a tool by which to build and maintain our site. HOWEVER, Tripod has not fully supported its Trellix tool for some time now, and, as time passes, it is becoming less and less reliable. This has brought about something of an emergency need to move on to some other support ASAP! We are, with the help of some of our Charlie Chan Family members, looking into alternatives. The worst case scenario would be that the entire site would need to be reconstituted painstakingly from scratch. This would be the proverbial mammoth undertaking, and, hopefully, this will not be what eventually happens! It is still hoped that we can “migrate’ our site to another support. Thank you so much for your understanding if you find errors or old information as well as a lack of new information growing at our present site.

At this time, a new support for our site, WordPress, is being explored, tested, and hopefully its inherent mysteries will be satisfactorily solved so reconstruction may begin!

AND, AS WE MOVE ON…GREETINGS, as we share what, sadly, was to be the final appearance of Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan…

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 PRESENTATION: “The Trap” (1946; 69 minutes); along with our “extras,” TWO short videos about Keye Luke

FEATURE INTRODUCTION: The members of Cole King's variety troupe occupy a Malibu, California beach house. One of the showgirls disappears, and her body is discovered by San Toy, a Chinese member of the troupe. Because Lois has been strangled, a murder technique said to be favored by the Chinese and the French, both San Toy and Adelaide, who is French, are under immediate suspicion. San Toy, who is a friend of Jimmy Chan, asks his father to investigate.

FEATURE NOTES: The film's working title was “Hot Money.” The title card reads, “Charlie Chan in ‘Dangerous Money’.” ‘Hollywood Reporter’ news items add the following information about the production: Prior to his appearance in this film, Rick Vallen served a term in the U.S. Coast Guard. Restaurateur "Don the Beachcomber" gave technical advice on the South Sea Islands. It was the wish of Jack De Witt, the actual writer of the screenplay, to credit his wife, Miriam Kissinger as the writer.

CAST (as Credited):

Sidney Toler: Charlie Chan
Mantan Moreland: Birmingham Brown
Victor Sen Young: Jimmy Chan
Tanis Chandler: Adelaide
Larry Blake: Rick Daniels
Kirk Alyn: [California Highway Patrol] Sergeant Reynolds
Rita Quigley: Clementine
Anne Nagel: Marcia
Helen Gerald: Ruby
Howard Negley: Cole King (also called "the Maestro")
Lois Austin: Mrs. [Irene] Thorn
Barbara Jean Wong: San Toy
Minerva Urical: Mrs. Weebles
Margaret Brayton: Madge Mudge
Bettie Best: Winifred
Jan Bryant: Lois

UNCREDITED CAST:

Walden Boyle: George "Doc" Brandt

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ON OUR FEATURE: Please go to http://www.charliechan.info/id60.html
THIS WEEK’S TERM: Coast Highway - State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north-south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the California. It is the longest state route in California with a total length of over 600 miles. Several portions are designated as either Pacific Coast Highway, Cabrillo Highway, Shoreline Highway, or Coast Highway.

Charlie Chan: "We make-up time on Coast Highway."

THIS WEEK’S IMAGE: Having just crawled through a sooty heating duct, Jimmy Chan continues his investigation of the Malibu beach house with Birmingham Brown.



For a viewing of more than 500 images from ALL films in the Charlie Chan series and MORE, please visit our Gallery: http://www.charliechan.info/id48.html

IF YOU LACK A COPY OF OUR FILM: Often our features can be found online. With great joy I can announce that this is the case this week as “The Trap” IS AVAILABLE online!

OUR MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our SEPTEMBER 2021 POLL, right here: September 2021 Poll

OUR AUGUST POLL RESULT:

QUESTION: In honor of Earl Derr Biggers' birth month: Had the author lived to write a seventh Charlie Chan mystery following Keeper of the Keys (which was set in the locales of Lake Tahoe and Reno), where, in your opinion, would it have taken place?

Back in Honolulu 43%

San Francisco (perhaps on his way back home from the previous case) 29%

Elsewhere on the U.S. mainland 21%

In a more distant, foreign location 7%

NEXT WEEK (October 4): We celebrate the birthday of Warner Oland with a shared viewing of “The Black Camel.”

AND… DON’T MISS THIS GREAT CHARLIE CHAN BLOG!: AND… DON’T MISS THIS GREAT CHARLIE CHAN BLOG!: A great blog site, The Postman on Holiday, is offered by our own Charlie Chan and Earl Derr Biggers expert, 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." Updated each month, it can be found at this address: www.thepostmanonholiday.com

SO, REMEMBER, PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s feature, “The Trap.”

THANK YOU SO MUCH…

Sincerely,

Rush Glick