Charlie Chan Secret (1936)

The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures.

Charlie Chan Secret (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better than later entries in the series. Šajā filmā, Inspector Chan investigates the disappearance of Allen Colby, mantinieks uz Colby īpašumu. Most of his family believes Colby was lost at sea.

In the first scenes of filma (filiāli saite), Charlie Chan supervises a deep-sea dive at the wreckage site of Colby’s ship. Kapteinis stāsta kungs. Chan, “Tas būs grūti uz Colby mantiniekiem, ja Allen Colby ir dzīvs.” Mr. Chan reaģē, “Grūtāk par Allen Colby, ja viņš ir miris.”

Allen Colby is indeed alive but an unknown assailant kills Colby soon after Colby returns home. Charlie Chan must solve his murder and the killings that follow before the killer murders all the Colby family.

Warner Oland dzimis Johan Verner Oland oktobrī 3, 1879 Zviedrijā. Viņš sākotnēji spēlēja uz skatuves pirms viņa kluso kino debija agrīnā 1910s. Directors often cast Oland as Asian characters because of his distinctive facial features.

Saskaņā ar Keye Luke, vienīgais grims Oland katrs valkāja kā Charlie Chan bija nedaudz kazbārdiņa. Oland pirmo reizi spēlēja Fu mandžūru pirms jāieskaita kā Charlie Chan. The series was a large financial successful and kept Fox afloat in the 1930s.

Oland veikts $40,000 dollars a film and took the role seriously. Tomēr, Oland battled alcoholism, which ended his marriage and then his life. Oland nomira no pneimonijas saasinājis viņa smēķēšana un alkohola, bet apmeklējot Stokholma augustā 6, 1938. Pat ja viņi izšķīrās aprīlī 1938, viņa ex-sieva atgriezās savu ķermeni uz Amerikas Savienotajām Valstīm, had Oland cremated and buried by their former home in Massachusetts.

Šī filma iet apmēram 71 protokols. Keye Luke is absent as his number one son Lee but the film is entertaining and well-done. Es arī tā trīs no četrām zvaigznēm? Cik zvaigznes jūs arī tā?

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