OUR CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY MONDAY EVENING CHAT FOR September 18, 2023: “Dangerous Money”
CHAT NUMBER: 1,221
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Tiger going away from village is never feared.”
THIS WEEK: We join Charlie Chan, Number Two Son, Jimmy, and Chattanooga Brown on a very “dangerous” South Seas Cruise!
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.” (You may also register at RumbleTalk, our Chat Room’s host, if you so choose, however, this limits you to a specific name.)
OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION: “Dangerous Money” (1946; 66 minutes) YES, our film IS available online this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgEElXjTKgU&t=37s
FEATURE SUMMARY: Aboard a passenger ship in the South Seas, undercover agent Scott Pearson tells Charlie Chan that he is being sent to Samoa to investigate the sudden appearance of money and artworks stolen from Philippine banks during the Japanese invasion. Later, while the passengers gather in the salon for a ceremony to celebrate the crossing of the equator, Pearson is stabbed in the back and killed. Chan, along with Number Two Son, Jimmy, and assistant Chattanooga Brown, works to find the killer who lurks among the passengers.
FEATURE NOTES: Our film’s working title was “Hot Money.” The title card reads, “Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money.” ‘Hollywood Reporter’ news items add the following information about the production: Prior to his appearance in this film, Rick Vallen served a term in the U.S. Coast Guard. Restaurateur “Don the Beachcomber” gave technical advice on the South Sea Islands. It was the wish of Jack De Witt, the actual writer of the screenplay, to credit his wife, Miriam Kissinger as the writer.
LOOK FOR: historical references to writer Robert Lewis Stevenson and artist Paul Gauguin, and more!
OUR MESSAGE BOARD: Please consider visiting our Message Board. Feel free to add a message to a post or begin a conversation…or state a thought! Our Message Board has been there for YOU since 2004!
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!
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?
YES, YOU’VE GOT TO GET THIS NEW BOOK!
Our own "HonoluLou," Lou Armagno, has just published a fantastic, thoroughly researched, well-produced 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 “The Trap,” sadly, Sidney Toler’s final film. Also, we will continue the 13-part serial, Chapter 11 of “Secret Agent X-9,” featuring Keye Luke with Benson Fong as the week’s “extra”! (An interesting side note: Keye Luke’s character in this series is named “Ah Fong.” Years later, Benson Fong opened several restaurants in the Los Angeles area, naming them “Ah Fong”! “Ah” (阿) There is no English language equivalent. It’s technically not a name in itself – it appears with names. It’s used for women and men. It comes from the southern part of China, in the languages of Cantonese, Hakka, and Chaozhou (Teochew), among others.)
SO, take care, and let’s meet again, as we have for more than two decades, within the humble yet always friendly confines of our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room at charliechan.org, as we share “Dangerous Money.”
