Secret Charlie Chan (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.

Secret Charlie Chan (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better than later entries in the series. Në këtë film, Inspector Chan investigates the disappearance of Allen Colby, trashëgimtar i pasurisë Colby. Most of his family believes Colby was lost at sea.

In the first scenes of film (lidhje Filialin), Charlie Chan supervises a deep-sea dive at the wreckage site of Colby’s ship. Kapiteni i thotë z. Chan, “Ajo do të jetë e vështirë për të trashëgimtarëve Colby, nëse Allen Colby është i gjallë.” Mr. Chan përgjigjet, “Harder mbi Allen Colby, nëse ai është i vdekur.”

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 ka lindur Johan Verner Oland në tetor 3, 1879 në Suedi. Ai fillimisht ka luajtur në skenë para se të bërë debutimin e tij të heshtur të filmit në 1910s fillim. Directors often cast Oland as Asian characters because of his distinctive facial features.

Sipas Keye Lukës, vetëm kozmetikë Oland çdo veshur si Charlie Chan ishte një mjekër me majucë pak. Oland i parë luajtur Fu Manchu para se të hedhur si Charlie Chan. The series was a large financial successful and kept Fox afloat in the 1930s.

Oland bërë $40,000 dollars a film and took the role seriously. Megjithatë, Oland battled alcoholism, which ended his marriage and then his life. Oland vdiq nga pneumonia bërë më keq nga pirja e duhanit të tij dhe pijet, ndërsa vizituar Stokholm në gusht 6, 1938. Edhe pse ata u shkurorëzuan në prill 1938, ish-gruaja e tij u kthye trupin e tij në Shtetet e Bashkuara, had Oland cremated and buried by their former home in Massachusetts.

Ky film shkon për 71 minuta. Keye Luke is absent as his number one son Lee but the film is entertaining and well-done. I jepte tre nga katër yje? Sa shumë yje ju jepni atë?

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