OUR CCF MONDAY EVENING CHAT AND FILM VIEWING FOR SEPTEMBER 11 “Shadows Over Chinatown”
CHAT NUMBER: 1,220
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Confucius say, ‘Sleep only escape from yesterday’.”
THIS WEEK: Following a very eventful bus journey, Charlie Chan and company arrive in San Francisco only to face more danger as they follow the trail of the “Torso Killer.”
OUR CHAT ROOM: Go to our “Chat Room” page, and, at the bottom of that page, click on the “Charlie Chan Family Chat Room ENTRANCE” link. You may then enter as a “Guest.”
OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION: “Shadows Over Chinatown” (1946; 64 minutes) Sadly, our film is NOT available online this week…
FEATURE SUMMARY: Charlie Chan, Number Two Son, Jimmy, and assistant, Birmingham Brown, are all on a bus heading south to San Francisco to investigate a murder case involving an unidentified armless, legless, headless torso. Chan learns that an elderly woman, Mrs. Conover, is traveling to San Francisco to search for her missing granddaughter, Mary. He tells the concerned woman that he will do what he can to help her find her missing loved one.
FEATURE NOTES: This film’s working titles were “Corpus Delecti” and “The Mandarin’s Secret.” “Shadows Over Chinatown” featured the return of Sen Yung (Victor Sen Young) as Charlie Chan’s Number Two Son, whose previous appearance had been as a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps on leave in “Castle in the Desert” (1942). Victor Sen Yung’s return to the Chan series, now being produced at Monogram Pictures, in a case of art mirroring life in the case of Jimmy Chan, followed his return to civilian life after having served in the Army Air Forces during the war.
LOOK FOR: Mary Gordon, whom we met as Mrs. MacMasters in “The Black Camel” (1931).
THIS WEEK’S EXTRA:
Secret Agent X-9 - Chapter 09 - The Danger Point - 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScjJojr0nRU
Running time: 15:33
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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!
AT OUR BULLETIN BOARD: THE CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY HOME 2022 NEWSLETTER is now available at our “Bulletin Board” at our Charlie Chan Family Home! Also, at our Bulletin Board you will find a lot more in the form of links to other Chan-related items of possible interest!
OUR SEPTEMBER POLL is available on our Bulletin Board or our Home Page…or directly at this address: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8TMCMTV
This month’s poll question: Have you read any "non-canon" (i.e. not written by Earl Derr Biggers) Charlie Chan mystery?
A MOST WONDERFUL, “MUST-GET” NEW BOOK!
Our own "HonoluLou," Lou Armagno, has just published a fantastic new book focusing on the aphorisms of Charlie Chan as found in the original Chan mysteries by Earl Derr Biggers! To learn more about this book, please visit our BULLETIN BOARD section: https://charliechan.org/bulletin-board/
Thank you so much, Lou, for creating the most unique of Charlie Chan studies!
NEXT WEEK: We will be sharing “Dangerous Money.” Also, we will continue the 13-part serial, Chapter 10 of “Secret Agent X-9,” featuring Keye Luke with Benson Fong as the week’s “extra”!
SO, take care, and let’s meet again, as we have for more that two decades, within the humble yet always friendly confines of our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room at charliechan.org, as we share “Shadows Over Chinatown.”
