FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Sometimes muddy waters, when stirred sufficiently, bring strange things to surface.”

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GREETINGS: This week we join Charlie Chan and company as the detective works to solve a series of connected, yet mysterious, murders!

OUR CHAT ROOM is located at: http://www.charliechan.info/id17.html

WE BEGIN OUR EVENING at 7:30 Eastern Time with a 45-minute time for arrivals and greetings. During this time, we also have the opportunity to engage in open dialogue along with one or more extras that relate in some way to our feature presentation. Then, at precisely 8:15 ET, we begin our feature film simultaneously starting our personal or online copies of this week’s feature!

THIS WEEK’S PRESENTATION: “The Shanghai Chest” (1948; 65 minutes)

FEATURE NOTES: This film's working title was “Murder By Alphabet.” Louis Mason is listed in the Call Bureau Cast Service in the role of the cemetery custodian, but the part was actually played by Paul Scardon.

FEATURE INTRODUCTION: In San Francisco, Judge Wesley Armstrong is stabbed to death in his study by an intruder, and Victor, the judge's nephew, who has come to see him, is attacked and rendered unconscious. As the police arrive at the Armstrong home, they discover Victor recovering consciousness and holding the murder knife in his hand. This, plus other incriminating evidence, makes him the prime suspect in the murder. When Charlie Chan comes to see the district attorney to apologize about a misadventure with his number two son Tommy and assistant Birmingham Brown, word is received that two sets of fingerprints were found on the knife - Victor's and those of a criminal who was executed six months earlier. Lieutenant Mike Ruark asks for Chan's help with the case.

CAST (as credited):

Roland Winters: Charlie Chan
Mantan Moreland: Birmingham Brown
Tim Ryan: Lt. Mike Ruark
Victor Sen Young: Tommy Chan
Deannie Best: Phyllis Powers
Tristam Coffin: Ed Seward
John Alvin: Victor Armstrong (also called Vic)
Russell Hicks: District Attorney Frank Bronson
Pierre Watkins: Judge Wesley Armstrong
Philip Van Zandt: Joseph Pindello
Milton Parsons: Mr. Grail
Olaf Hytten: Bates
Erville Alderson: Walter Somervale
George Eldredge: Pat Finley

UNCREDITED CAST (alphabetical):

Lois Austin: Landlady
Willie Best: Willie Best
Chabing: Receptionist
Eddie Coke: Thomas Cartwright
Tom Colemen: Mortuary Owner
Louis Mason: Cemetery Custodian
William Ruhl: Jailer
John Shay: Dr. Stacey
Cap Somers: Convict
Charlie Sullivan: Officer Murphy

THIS WEEK’S IMAGE: (Attached) While investigating insurance companies across the city seeking a connection to the Armstrong murder, Charlie Chan notes that the receptionist of one is evasive when asked questions.



IF YOU LACK A COPY OF OUR FEATURE: It IS available online through a link provided at our Chat Room Page!

THIS WEEK’S EXTRA:

We have just ONE extra this week, but it is a GOOD one! Please arrive early if you wish to watch along with early arrivers:

Color home movies of San Francisco in the 1940s...from Chinatown to Alcatraz!

(20:40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brzCj_TKE4k

OUR MONTHLY POLL: Please take a moment to cast your vote in our NOVEMBER 2022 POLL, right here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP8XP7V

LAST MONTH’S POLL RESULT: To see our OCTOBER 2022 Poll result, as well as ALL of our polls going back to 2003, please use this link: http://www.charliechan.info/id93.html

NEXT WEEK (November 28): Please join us for “The Golden Eye,” starring Roland Winters.

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

OUR 2022 CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY NEWSLETTER!

This year’s Charlie Chan Family Newsletter, chronicling the year 2021, is still available! Thank you so much, Lou, for your continued, masterfully hard work and dedication! It can be accessed at the following link:

https://thepostmanonholidayhome.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/2021-newsletter-lou-final.pdf

AND, FINALLY, REMEMBER: PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s feature, “The Shanghai Chest.”

AS ALWAYS… THANK YOU SO MUCH…

Sincerely,

Rush Glick