OUR CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY MONDAY EVENING CHAT FOR June 5, 2023: “Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum”
CHAT NUMBER: 1,206
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Mice only play when cat supposed to be in bed.”
THIS WEEK: Charlie Chan is asked to be a part of a live radio crime show at a wax museum of crime, which swiftly becomes a murder scene.
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OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION: “Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum” (1940; 63 minutes)
FEATURE SUMMARY:
Escaped killer Steve McBirney vows to get even with Charlie Chan whose testimony was key in his conviction. Recovering from plastic surgery at an eerie wax museum run by Dr. Cream, the killer lies in wait. Chan is lured to the museum through an offer to participate in a live radio broadcast there. Fortuitously escaping a death trap, Chan, along with Number Two Son, Jimmy, investigates the murder of one of the other participants who is connected to a crime that occurred a decade before.
FEATURE NOTES:
According to David Robert Cellitti, the wax figure of Charlie Chan (and, perhaps we may assume that the rest of the wax figures used in the film) was made by a studio in Los Angeles called The Stubergh’s, which was run by Katherine Stubergh. “The late Katherine Stubergh was my mentor. She supplied wax figures for such films as ‘House of Wax,’ ‘Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,’ ‘The Frozen Ghost,’ and many other pictures…including ‘Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum.’”
THIS WEEK’S EXTRAS: Please join us earlier before the start of our feature for these extra presentations.
The True Crime Museum Hastings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFQI0fS0_Yo
(Running time: 14:02)
The Criminals Hall of Fame Wax Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JBKaBJ1fiE
(Running time: 8:21)
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AS ALWAYS, WE BEGIN OUR EVENING at 7:30 Eastern Time with a 45-minute block of time for arrivals and greetings, and the sharing of an extra…or two...or even three! (see above). Then, at precisely 8:15 ET, we begin running our feature film simultaneously starting our personal or online copies of this week’s feature!
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NEXT WEEK: We will be sharing “Phantom of Chinatown,” starring Keye Luke as a young James Lee Wong, detective, as we commemorate our Number One Son’s birthday!
Take care, and I hope to see you at this week’s Monday Evening Chat at our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room at charliechan.org as we share “Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum.”
