FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Ancient proverb say, ‘Never bait trap with wolf to catch wolf.’"

This Monday we bring our month of September to a close as we share the month of September flies by, we gather to share “Shadows Over Chinatown,” starring Sidney Toler with Victor Sen Yung as Number Two Son, Jimmy, and Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown. In this adventure, Charlie Chan becomes involved in a string of gruesome “Torso Murders,” and the detective literally comes within a hairsbreadth of meeting his illustrious ancestors.

Also, as our weekly “extra,” we will be sharing another of the cartoons from the 16-episode cartoon series from 1972 which featured KEYE LUKE as the voice of Charlie Chan, “The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan.” The episode we will be sharing will be the fifth one, “The Eye of the Idol,” which can be found online at: http://www.toon.is/the-amazing-chan-and-the-chan-clan-05-eye-of-the-idol-video_4e7403575.html

OUR PRESENTATIONS: “Shadows Over Chinatown” (1946; 64 minutes) …AND “”The Eye of the Idol” (1972; 20 minutes; originally aired: October 7, 1972).

FILM 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.

FILM 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.

TIME: We begin with arrivals and greetings at 7:30 EASTERN TIME. Then, we share our special short “extra” which will be followed at exactly 8:15 when we roll our feature for this Monday evening, “Shadows Over Chinatown.”

LOCATION: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room, which is accessed at http://www.charliechan.info/id17.html.

IF YOU LACK A COPY OF OUR FILM: Often our features can be found available online. GOOD NEWS! Our feature, “Shadows Over Chinatown,” is presently available online at Daily Motion (although in two parts and dubbed in Italian with “new” music!) at these addresses:

PART ONE: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4dtu2r_charlie-chan-a-chinatown-1-2-shadows-over-chinatown-1946-mystery-film-audio-ita-sidney-toler_shortfilms

PART TWO: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4dtu3z_charlie-chan-a-chinatown-2-2-shadows-over-chinatown-1946-mystery-film-audio-ita-sidney-toler_shortfilms

And, for our Chan cartoon: http://www.toon.is/the-amazing-chan-and-the-chan-clan-05-eye-of-the-idol-video_4e7403575.html

SO, let’s gather once again within the venerable walls of our humble Chat Room as we share another fun-filled evening of Charlie Chan…

Sincerely,
Rush Glick