Charlie Chan’s 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’s 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. Bu filmde, Inspector Chan investigates the disappearance of Allen Colby, heir to the Colby estate. Most of his family believes Colby was lost at sea.

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Warner Oland as Charlie Chan from Charlie Chan’s Secret in the Public Domain

In the first scenes of the film (bağlı bağlantı), Charlie Chan supervises a deep-sea dive at the wreckage site of Colby’s ship. Kaptan Mr söyler. Chan, “Bu Colby mirasçılar zor olacak, eğer Allen Colby yaşıyor.” Bay. Chan yanıt, “Allen Colby üzerinde Harder, Ölü ise.”

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 Öland Ekim'de Johan Verner Öland doğdu 3, 1879 İsveç. O aslında erken 1910'larda yaptığı sessiz film ilk yapmadan önce sahnede oynanan. Directors often cast Oland as Asian characters because of his distinctive facial features.

Keye Luke göre, Charlie Chan küçük bir keçi sakalı olduğu gibi sadece makyaj Öland her giydi. Öland ilk Charlie Chan olarak dökme önce Fu Mançu oynadı. The series was a large financial successful and kept Fox afloat in the 1930s.

Öland yapılan $40,000 dollars a film and took the role seriously. Ancak, Oland battled alcoholism, which ended his marriage and then his life. Öland onun sigara ve içki ile kötü yapılan pnömoni öldü, Ağustos ayında Stockholm ziyaret ederken 6, 1938. Nisan ayında boşandı olsa 1938, eski eşi ABD'ye bedenini geri döndü, had Oland cremated and buried by their former home in Massachusetts.

Bu film hakkında çalışır 71 dakika. Keye Luke is absent as his number one son Lee but the film is entertaining and well-done. Ben dört yıldız üzerinden üç o vermek? Bunu veriyorsunuz kaç yıldızlar?

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