Roland Winters in The Golden Eye (1948)

While a few actors played Charlie Chan before Warner Oland and a few portrayed Inspector Chan after Roland Winters, the main body of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film adaptations occurred between 1931 a 1949. Warner Oland began playing Charlie Chan in Il cammello nero (1931).

Dopo la sua morte, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the 1938 film, Charlie Chan in Honolulu. Sidney Toler portrayed Inspector Chan longer than any other actor. He made twenty-two Charlie Chan films. Toler made eleven Charlie Chan films with Twentieth Century – Fox and eleven films with Monogram Pictures.

Dopo la morte di Sidney Toler, Roland Winters took over the role for six more Monogram films. Roland Winters played Inspector Chan for the first time in The Ring cinese (1947). The Ring cinese is almost an exact reproduction of Sig.. Wong a Chinatown (1940), Both screen plays were written by W. Scott Darling.

The Golden Eye (1948) is the best of the Charlie Chan films starring Roland Winters as Inspector Chan. Sig.. Manning, a western mine owner, has contacted his old friend, a curio dealer in San Francisco, because he believes someone is trying to kill him. The curio dealer contacts his old friend Charlie Chan.

Charlie Chan travels to the miner’s ranch with No. 3 son Tommy, interpretato da Victor Sen Yung (who was No. 2 son Jimmy in the Sidney Toler series), and assistant Birmingham Brown, played by Mantan Moreland. Inspector Chan also meets his old friend “Lt. Mike”. Lt. Mike is investigating the crooked activities at the Golden Eye Mine also.

L'ambientazione occidentale è un aspetto unico questo film (link di affiliazione) in particolare quando Tommy e Birmingham si vestono per cercare di integrarsi. The action moves at a deliberate pace including some interesting scenes from the mine. This film is one of two Roland Winter’s films that are in the public domain.

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