OUR CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY MONDAY EVENING CHAT FOR December 4, 2023: “The Golden Eye
CHAT NUMBER: 1,232
FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Little knowledge sometimes very dangerous thing.”
THIS WEEK: We join Charlie Chan, Number Two Son, Tommy, along with assistant Birmingham Brown in a dangerous case involving a mysterious gold mine where MURDER lurks in the darkness!
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,” choosing the name you wish to use.
OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION: “The Golden Eye” (1948; 69 minutes) Good news! This film IS available online for those who lack a personal copy.
FEATURE SUMMARY: In San Francisco’s Chinatown, an Arizona mine owner named Manning visits a curio shop seeking help from Charlie Chan because he believes that someone is out to kill him. While in the shop, Manning is shot at by an unseen assailant. Later, Chan agrees to help Manning. Posing as a dealer in oriental curios, Chan travels to the Manning home where he finds that Manning has been gravely injured in a mysterious accident in his mine. Very suspicious of the situation, Chan, along with his number two son Tommy and assistant Birmingham Brown proceed with what proves to be a very dangerous investigation.
FEATURE NOTES: The working title of this film was “The Mystery of the Golden Eye.” The opening title card reads: “Charlie Chan in The Golden Eye.” The Call Bureau Cast Service lists Herman Cantor and Sam McDaniel in the cast, but they do not appear in the finished film that we have available today. Copyright records list George L. Spaulding as Dr. Groves, but the role was played by Sam Flint. Richard Loo, Barbara Jean Wong, and Tom Tyler are also listed in the cast, but they do not appear in the finished film.
THIS WEEK’S EXTRA:
The Green Hornet (Chapter 6 – Highways of Peril)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp3vRY5TCRQ&t=77s
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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!
AT OUR BULLETIN BOARD: THE CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY HOME 2022 NEWSLETTER remains 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!
COMING SOON! The Charlie Chan Family Home 2023 Newsletter!
OUR DECEMBER POLL is available on our Bulletin Board or our Home Page…or directly at this address: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NMCVP76
This month’s poll question: How optimistic are you that one or more of the "lost" Charlie Chan films will turn up someday?
NEXT WEEK: Please join us as we view “The Golden Eye.”
SO… Please join us as we continue our Charlie Chan Film Tour with “The Feathered Serpent.”
