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Four more films:

Behind that Curtain (1929) - No Oland, very itsy-bitsy Chan but Warner Baxter who would later play Doctor Ordway in the Crime Doctor film series, and Boris Karloff in the role of a servant.

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The Gloomy Camel (1931) - Features Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye

Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) - A substantial old-dark house whodunnit

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Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) - Charlie and #1 son on the titanic white way

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937) - The last of the Oland Chan films

EXTRAS:

Black Camel commentary by film critic Ken Hanke

Charlie Chan’s Secret commentary by film critic Ken Hanke

Chan Is Missing: The Last Days Of Warner Oland featurette,

The World Of Charlie Chan featurette

Chanograms: The Aphorisms Of Charlie Chan featurette

Charlie Chan and The Rise of The Unique Detective featurette

Dr. Henry Lee: The Unusual Day Charlie Chan featurette

Charlie Chan’s Chance: A Recreation, a dramatized recreation of the lost film, Charlie Chan’s Chance with an optional introduction by film historian John Cork

Restoration comparisons

Theatrical Trailers

Still Galleries

The Warner Oland cycle is now complete. The special interest groups that panicked the Fox Movie Channel into not showing re-mastered editions of the Charlie Chan films attend in 2003 have ultimately failed. With the release of Vol 3, ALL the Warner Oland Chan films (not counting the lost ones) are available on DVD for all who want to discover them. (Hopefully, the rest of the Toler Chans will follow) Long live the substantial detective. And to the P.C. forces that don’t like it I can only say is…Thank you…so considerable…

Charlie Chan was originally created by novelist Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933), who very loosely based the character on Hawaii’s legendary police officer Chang Apana (1887-1933.) Biggers wrote six novels in all, and after several deceptive starts 20th Century Fox (then simply known as Fox) hit on the upright combination of actors, mystery, and comedy. The result was perhaps the single most current film series Hollywood ever created.

Contemporary audiences tend to concept the films as politically erroneous, but the fact remains that Chan and his family–most often personified by Keye Luke as son Lee–were among the very few distinct Asian characters on American movie screens at the time; as such they were particularly celebrated with Asian-American audiences of the day. Volume 3 of the 20th Century Fox collection rounds out the surviving films starring Warner Oland, who was the current series Chan.

Several Chan films have been lost; the earliest unruffled in existence is THE Dim CAMEL, the second in the series. Based directly on the Biggers unusual of the same name, this 1931 release finds Chan investigating the assassinate of a Hollywood star in Hawaii. Loosely suggested by the William Taylor Desmond assassinate and filmed partly on situation, THE Dusky CAMEL is atypical of most Chan films–and all the more arresting for that. It also has the fortune of Bela Lugosi as Warner Oland’s co-star, and Lugosi and Oland have unexpected chemistry. Released in 1936, CHARLIE CHAN’S SECRET is a account of a missing heir, a woman who is under the influence of “spirtualists,” and features seances, a creepy mansion, and lots of foolish-but-fun location turns. Although not one of the best Chan films, it is among my occupy favorites.

Released in 1938, CHARLIE CHAN ON BROADWAY and CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CARLO were the last two Chan films made starring Oland, who died not long after. Both films feature Keye Luke as son Lee Chan. ON BROADWAY finds Chan doing battle with a murderous blackmailer in Current York; it is among the better films in the series, slick and well executed. AT MONTE CARLO finds Chan seeking stolen bonds–and plunging into a mixture of blackmail and kill as a result. While it tends to be a bit slower than most Chans, it too is appetizing.

Fox has done very well by the Chan films in the past, but on this occasion the studio has really knocked itself in terms of bonuses. There are the usual, expertly made “featurettes” on various aspects of the series, but on this occasion two films (Shadowy CAMEL and SECRET) have very erudite, tantalizing commentaries. The status also includes items of interest: a print of Gradual THAT CURTAIN, a very early Chan film that is not properly fraction of the series, and a re-creation via stills and dialogue of the lost film CHARLIE CHAN’S CHANCE. Regretfully, Tedious THAT CURTAIN is a dire film and best left to hardcore fans, and the recreation of CHANCE is more akin to an Ed Wood film than a Chan film–but Fox gets points for difficulty. The restorations are not flawless, but they are powerful better than other prints; recommended for Chan fans everywhere!

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