New DVDs, a review by Dave Kehr in the New York Times. Date: June 13, 2010.

Article title: "Golly, Pop, You Always Get 'Em, Even on a Poverty Row Budget"

The review includes nice comments about Mantan Moreland rising above the script material he was given. Doing more with less, Moreland was the best.

www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/movies/homevideo/13kehr.html

If the above link does not work, google: New York Times DVD review June 13, 2010 or New York Times DVD review Charlie Chan. Either one will work.

The article includes two fine stills featuring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong. "Gee, Pop, what a treat." Enjoy.

nice article and it has a bit of formality to make any old film fan want to check it out. It seems to have done well in its debut week, just judging on how Deep Discount dot com (a big online retailer of movies) had sold out in about 3 days of their inventory.

I hope it continues to do well in sales, and I hope it prompts TCM to get the rest of the Chans acquired and released also. I really, really want to see Feathered Serpent so I can see both sons number 1 and number 2 onscreen in one film. LOL! Just imagine them both trying to impress pop with their detective skills. ROFL!

Thanks, Steve.

I often wonder if the reviewers actually watch the films they review...this segment from the article makes me wonder about this writer:

"Ostensibly a chauffeur, Moreland’s Birmingham Brown character behaves more like a full partner in the Chan family enterprise. Carrying the ball for the immobile Toler, he does much of the work of clue gathering as a sort of sensible older brother to the impulsive youngster played by Victor Sen Yung"

I love Moreland in these films, but in no way is he "carrying the ball" for Toler (who's not really immobile) and he certainly is never "sensible".