OUR CCF MONDAY EVENING CHAT FOR March 24, 2024: “Charlie Chan at the Olympics”
CHAT NUMBER: 1,248
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Sometime jewel found in ashes.”
THIS WEEK: Please join us as we share “Charlie Chan at the Olympics”!
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OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION: “Charlie Chan at the Olympics” (1937; 71 minutes) Happily, this film IS available online for those who lack a personal copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvvuir4kG0
FEATURE SUMMARY: During flight tests over Honolulu, an experimental airplane is hijacked and its pilot murdered. When the missing plane is chanced upon by Charlie Chan and his son Charlie, Jr., it is discovered that the new guidance device, designed to allow military planes to fly unmanned, is missing. The detective traces the strategically important invention to the summer Olympic Games in Berlin, where spies, enemy agents, and other criminals are trying to obtain it, intent on selling it to another government. Chan’s son, Lee, a member of the U.S. Olympic swim team, is on hand to help his father recover the device and solve the mystery.
FEATURE NOTES: This film contains newsreel footage of the dirigible ‘Hindenburg’ which exploded only two weeks before the release of “Charlie Chan at the Olympics,” as well as several highlights of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, including a sequence featuring American runner Jesse Owens participating in the 4×100 relay. John Carradine is listed as a cast member in the ‘Hollywood Reporter’ production charts, but his participation in the final film has not been confirmed.
THIS WEEK’S EXTRAS: Our weekly “extras” are offered to provide enhanced background information for our featured film, hopefully enriching our viewers’ appreciation of each film’s place in actual history and culture.
EXTRA #1: Berlin 1936 (in color, OV with English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es6f7K4c-y8
Running time: 8:27
EXTRA #2: Olympic Sports In Berlin Aka 11th Olympiad (1936)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4clb83HBeU
Running time: 2:41
EXTRA #3: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKlxcqLKcM
Running time: 4:46
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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! (please 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: “Charlie Chan on Broadway”
SO… Please join us as we travel from the tropical city of Honolulu all the way to Berlin, Germany for the Olympic Games, and the deadly game of international espionage and…MURDER!
