FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Learn from hen - never boast about egg until after egg's birthday.”

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!

Thank you so much to those who are offering much needed guidance and encouragement!

AND, AS WE CONTINUE…GREETINGS, as we celebrate the birthday of WARNER OLAND…born Johan Verner Ölund on October 3, 1879 in the rural village of Bjurholm, Sweden.

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 Black Camel” (1931; 69 minutes); along with our “extra,” a Charlie Chan radio drama: “The Frightened Sheriff” (24 minutes).

FEATURE INTRODUCTION: Hollywood star Shelah Fane, who is in Hawaii shooting a film on location, is murdered in her beach house in Waikiki. Detective Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police Department is called on to investigate. "Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate. Tonight black camel has knelt here," Chan tells the assembled suspects.

FEATURE NOTES: The novel “The Black Camel,” by Earl Derr Biggers, was originally published serially in ‘The Saturday Evening Post’ between May 18 and June 22, 1929. Sources conflict concerning the release date of the film. According to information in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, some scenes were shot in Honolulu, where some of the film's music was also recorded.

CAST (as credited):

Warner Oland: Charlie Chan
Sally Eilers: Julie O'Neill
Bela Lugosi: Tarneverro
Dorothy Revier: Shelah Fane
Victor Varconi: Robert Fyfe
Murray Kinnell: Smith
William Post, Jr.: Alan Jaynes
Robert Young: Jimmy Bradshaw
Violet Dunn: Anna
J.M. Kerrigan: Thomas MacMasters
Mary Gordon: Mrs. MacMasters
Rita Rozelle: Luana
Otto Yamaoka: Kashimo

UNCREDITED CAST (alphabetical):

Dwight Frye: Jessop
C. Henry Gordon: Huntley Van Horn
Robert Homans: Chief of Police
Bo Ling: Number One Chan Daughter
Hamilton MacFadden: Movie Director Val Martino

Louise Mackintosh: Librarian
Melvin Paoa: Hawaiian Beach Boy
Richard Tucker: Wilkie Ballou
James Wang: Wong
Marjorie White: Rita Ballou
(Unknown): Miss [Diana] Dixon
FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ON OUR FEATURE: Please go to http://www.charliechan.info/id20.html

THIS WEEK’S TERM: that's a go - (Informal) To be in agreement toward a proposal.

Huntley Van Horn: "That's a go, there are no more answers."

THIS WEEK’S IMAGE: Warner Oland as Charlie Chan in “The Black Camel.”



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 OCTOBER 2021 POLL, right here: October 2021 Poll

OUR SEPTEMBER POLL RESULT:

QUESTION: What do you like most about the Monogram Pictures Charlie Chan series?

The addition of other Chan offspring 13%

Birmingham Brown and the inclusion of humor 67%

The unusual technological gimmicks 13%

The 'Forties "feel" 7%

NEXT WEEK (October 11): We will be sharing TWO of “The New Adventures of Charlie Chan” TV crime drama from 1957, starring J. Carrol Naish as Charlie Chan.

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

ONE FINAL, HAPPY NOTE: Please take a look at Steven A. Fredrick - IMDb for information at Internet Movie DataBase regarding our own Hawaii Steve!

AND, FINALLY, REMEMBER, PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s feature, “The Black Camel.”

THANK YOU SO MUCH…

Sincerely,

Rush Glick