Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Daughters and I have been watching some of these on Netflix...
Yep, I fondly remember Charlie Chan movies.
You can get some heated debates among Chan fans by asking who they prefer: Warner Oland, Sidney Toler, or Roland Winters, in the title role.
Thanks for the post...my dad loved CC. Reading this brought him back to if but for a moment.
That inscrutable Chinaman!
Thank you—these are wonderful! Thanks to the monsignor’s father, as well.
Lots of full length Chan films here.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Charlie+Chan%2C+long
In one of the bonus sections of these DVDs, Warner Oland (I think) was quoted as saying he hated those “Chanisms” as too corny, but the public loved it and the studios wisely kept it up.
Another interesting bit was that when Oland (again I think) went to China, even the Chinese thought he was an Oriental.
I really liked the “Gee Whiz Pop” No. 1 Son, for he personified how the kids of non-Western cultures became Americanized.
Some years back, TNT was going to run a “Chan-a-Thon” and a professional victim group showed up complaining that the character was demeaning and showed the Chinese in a bad light. Naturally, the execs folded. I wrote them a scathing letter (pre-email days) saying how come no one complained about Colombo.
My favorite saying is - (after capturing young bear which had been stealing blocks of Teak wood from his storage shed -
“I have caught you bear with boys feet and teaks of Chan.”
Excellent. I used to go to Charlie Chan movies at the weekly Saturday Matinee double feature, when I was a kid.
For what seems to be a complete list of aphorisms, see here:
http://charliechanfamily.tripod.com/id6.html
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Many man swallow but few man chew.
Racist.
(/sarcasm)
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