42 yr old who exclusively watches films from 1930s and 1940s, sometimes the 50s, and I always come back to Charlie Chan when it's been long enough without seeing one.
Nice to see Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter perform their "indefinite talk" routine, where each would speak to the other, starting a sentence only to be interrupted by the other, yet continue to understand each other perfectly. To me that took real talent.
Ditto - Willie Best played a semi-serious part in another movie; I missed him saying "Feets, do your stuff", but good that he had a break from usual. Thx for your comment...🤳🖖
They do it in one other Chan that I remember. It’s a real treat to get to see them together getting to do some of their vaudeville act. We were lucky some of trier act got recorded.
I love these old Charlie Chan movies, especially when Mantan Moreland is included in the cast. Join me in watching and enjoying. England, October, 2023.
I remember watching these on Sat. mornings back in the late 70's. One of my local independent stations used to feature either a Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto or a Sherlock Homes film as part of their morning movie.
Now picture this -> a comedy short subject staring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Mantan Moreland !! This is what Moe wanted after Curley had to quit making shorts. Sadly the studio said no and they ended up with Joe Besser.
Plenty of adventurous subterfuge and funny witty scenes/lines in this B flick. Worth watching just of the dialogues between Matan Moreland and Ben Carter --- and, finally, Sidney Toler. Thanks O.E.
I think this is the last really good one from the poverty row studio. It's a testament to the actors and scripts that up to this point, they were so good. The Fox films were stunning but these hold up. Mantan Moreland is always wonderful and so are all the character actors who show up in them. No one can match Sidney Toler, Chinese or not. We have all of them on DVD.
@@willieluncheonette5843 a little. I like it, not love it. Even the other poverty row outings prior to this one were really fun. This was the start of the real downhill slide.
This movie almost slipped through my fingers like Sand. sureI’m glad I did my research. I totally enjoyed all of Charlie Chan movies don’t wanna miss one👍🏼👍🏼💐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🇨🇦
I know that Charlie Chan in Egypt is considered the best of the CC series. But this was really good. I've enjoyed Charlie Chan w/Mantan Moreland movies for sometime. For that time, Ive always thought the CC movies were humorous, respectful and non racist.
I love them and appreciate that a couple of the actors who played Chan were actually acting not just doing broad Chinese stereotypes, but it really is very racist because Chinese roles should be played by Chinese actors, but that would not happen in the 30s. I mean have you seen Kathryn Hepburn play a Chinese character? Awful and pretty racist. Omg and John Wayne being Mongolian? Oh brother! Lol In themselves Chans don’t seem racist.
Love Charlie Chan moves:). I binge watched them about a year ago (I am 66). Besides the "soul" the old films have (at least for me), it is wonderful to listen to the actors actually using language beautifully, with enunciation almost forgotten now.
Thanks for this. I like the Monograms better than the earlier Foxes because of Mantan Moreland, a fine comedic actor. The scenes between him and the son are always enjoyable. The Monograms don't have the production values of the Foxes but that's precisely why I like them. They are more mysterious and off the beaten track. The Foxes are staid, the Monograms kinetic. Both Oland and Toler are fine, Roland Winters, the last Chan, not so much. I find him sarcastic and dour. He did act in quite a few Chans (6 or 7 I think--I'm too lazy to google it now) but by that time the Monograms were coming apart at the seems and the Chan films were getting sort of played out. The Chan series never had a really first class director except for Phil Karlson who directed two of them. Watch the first 6 minutes of his direction of The Shanghai Cobra---pure noir. He made many terrific noirs later in his career like 99 River Street, Five Against the House, Tight Spot,The Phenix City Story, The Brothers Rico,
@@garryferrington811 Yes, and I'm a director.. Noir is my favorite genre and influenced me. Three years ago I finished my first film. You must be quite a movie fan too!!
I will soon be 71 and have enjoyed the Sidney Toler acting as Charley Chan. Saturdays as a child would be incomplete without these movies along with Tarzan!!!
ITS NICE TO HAVE THESE OLD MOVIES ON TH-cam.. ALSO THE THIN MAN.. MOTHER AND I WOULD WATCH THESE MOVIES ALL NIGHT..WITH A POT OF COFFEE. GOOD OLD DAYS..
Thank you to the person who commented that he/she did NOT understand why it has been stated that Charlie Chan movies were racist. I think there's way too much flaunting of the subject on race/racism!!
Charlie Chan is portrayed by a white person. Charlie's Chinese children are portrayed as immature. Birmingham is portrayed as a coward. This is the standard portrayal of minorities. This is why the movie is racist. On a personal note, I wanted Charlie for a father.
I’ve watched a lot of movies on TH-cam since I can’t afford paid cable. Watched a lot of bad movies but I always go back to Charley Chan movies. I love this actor with some comedy and patience he shows his children.
I am 83 and I remember watching Charlie Chan when I was a small child in late 40’s, my older brothers and sisters loved these mysteries …..my favorite Charlie Chan was this guy in , Dark Alibi……
Christopher here... I've recently been diving into the Charlie Chan films. Some less than great, some are really good! There have some legitimately compelling mysteries. Glad you are enjoying the film!
Yes! Poor number 1, or 2, or 3 son. Always trying so hard to please pop and Charlie giving so much grief. haha!z We had a lot of fun talking bout it on the Orphaned Entertainment podcast!
Okay!! If you like old movies, let me make some recommendations: The Nightwalker with Barbara Stanwyck and Rod Taylor. Homicidal, I Saw What You Did with Joan Crawford. Thriller with Boris Karloff (and Thriller just happens to be avaikable on Utube). Dark Waters with Merle Oberon. Sudden Fear (Joan Crawford). The Unguarded Moment (Esther Williams). Gilda (Rita Hayworth). The Thin Man series. Betty Grable musicals. Hotel from the Arthur Hailey book (I believe 1967). The original Invisible Man. The Mummy (Boris Karloff). Anything with Hedy Lamar. The Ghostbusters (Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard). The Snoop Sisters (Mildred Natwick and Helen Hayes -- a series of about 5 movies about two old sisters who always get into trouble while solving mysteries). Salome (Tita Hayworth and Stewart Granger). The Hurricane (Dorothy Lamour). Cobra Woman (Sabu and Maria Montez). Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Lauren Bacall). Dracula (Bela Lugosi). It's late at night and that's all I can think of right now.
That is an amazing list! Many of my (Christopher) favorites as well. We are only a few years away from the early Universal horror films hitting public domain!
Moreland, along with the extreme stereotyped eye-rolling cowardly black role, was also given some clever dialogues...with black actors. My fave is the 'answers before question complete' telepathy/adjacent routines, each completing the unspoken info. Hard to describe. You hadda be there. He also lead all black casts in 40s. Was permitted other dialogue play, with restrictions...with Asians in the CC flix. Benson Fong here, or a Chinese 'daughter' in another. Black Magic Also app '46.
Enjoyed the movie but today it would not be appropriate, it is relevant to the time it was made in the 1940s, I hope people can enjoy it for what it is worth.
It’s a movie. It’s appropriate for today - on a rainy Saturday afternoon- and appropriate for future generations. It’s just satisfying entertainment. And if it’s not for some people today, then they don’t have to watch it. But the rest of us can watch it and appreciate the storyline and specially the acting. Sydney Toler was a wonderful Charlie Chan.
Monogram had a tiny little four and a half acre studio with three modest stages and a wee backlot in gay East Hollywood. Now it's owned by Scientology.
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Im 64 yrs old and have got so I am watching more movies from the 1930's-1940's. I especially enjoy the Charlie Chan movies. Thanks for sharing.🥰
I’m 83 and I watched all these movies
42 yr old who exclusively watches films from 1930s and 1940s, sometimes the 50s, and I always come back to Charlie Chan when it's been long enough without seeing one.
Me too.
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Thank you so much for sharing the Charlie Chan movies I love Charlie Chan and all his movies and I appreciate it very very much
Nice to see Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter perform their "indefinite talk" routine, where each would speak to the other, starting a sentence only to be interrupted by the other, yet continue to understand each other perfectly. To me that took real talent.
The best part of the show, in my opinion.
Ditto - Willie Best played a semi-serious part in another movie; I missed him saying "Feets, do your stuff", but good that he had a break from usual.
Thx for your comment...🤳🖖
Thanks, I will look for the routine, really, thanks a lot. I watched it, do you know of any of there other material? All the best from Portugal.🇵🇹
That's like the 2 Black guys in Airplane taking Jive!
They do it in one other Chan that I remember. It’s a real treat to get to see them together getting to do some of their vaudeville act. We were lucky some of trier act got recorded.
I love these old Charlie Chan movies, especially when Mantan Moreland is included in the cast. Join me in watching and enjoying. England, October, 2023.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Charlie Chan movies are absolutely worth their weight in gold. the ones with Birmingham are priceless.
"I will sit in car while you enjoy nervous break down " 😹, oh that Chan the coolest comedian 🙃😹👊👌🐈⬛️🐈⬛️
They gave him some great lines!
I remember watching these on Sat. mornings back in the late 70's. One of my local independent stations used to feature either a Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto or a Sherlock Homes film as part of their morning movie.
Yep. Right after Creature Feature.
They started in the 50,s on Sat morning
But as Times said, Karloff as Wong was...all wrong. Age 72. Sigh.
Mantan Moreland is a fabulous actor. He also teams up with Frankie Darro in a bunch of movies. 😊
I love Frankie Darro movies!
Yes, both very enjoyable in any film.
Now picture this -> a comedy short subject staring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Mantan Moreland !! This is what Moe wanted after Curley had to quit making shorts. Sadly the studio said no and they ended up with Joe Besser.
Personally, I think Mantan is the real star of these shows.
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Mantan and Charlie, I couldn't ask for more !!!
The chats Birmingham has with his friend are my favourite parts of these movies.
I’m 79 years old and have been watching Charley Chan since I was in hi school and have watched with pleasure and still enjoy today till today 2024
I began watching in my 50s. I so enjoy them
My Favorite episode is Circus with the tiny couple
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I love these old films.
I liked when Mantan and TommyChan enter the convicts area.Mantan and Tommy Chan were holding hands while walking 😂😂
I thoroughly enjoyed that! What comedic gems the three main characters (and the convict) are! Thanks for the upload!
Plenty of adventurous subterfuge and funny witty scenes/lines in this B flick. Worth watching just of the dialogues between Matan Moreland and Ben Carter --- and, finally, Sidney Toler. Thanks O.E.
❤just love my old black n white mystery on Sunday
I agree. B&W is a plus
I'm into these old movies more now that I'm old, always liked Charlie Chan.
I think this is the last really good one from the poverty row studio. It's a testament to the actors and scripts that up to this point, they were so good. The Fox films were stunning but these hold up. Mantan Moreland is always wonderful and so are all the character actors who show up in them. No one can match Sidney Toler, Chinese or not. We have all of them on DVD.
DITTO.
Same with me. My son knew I loved the Charlie Chan movies he went out and bought them for me. Love my son❤
you see a difference between this film and the I think it is 3 Tolers that came after this one?
@@willieluncheonette5843 a little. I like it, not love it. Even the other poverty row outings prior to this one were really fun. This was the start of the real downhill slide.
The war's end revived a budget or 2 for Poverty Row.
This movie almost slipped through my fingers like Sand. sureI’m glad I did my research.
I totally enjoyed all of Charlie Chan movies don’t wanna miss one👍🏼👍🏼💐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🇨🇦
I know that Charlie Chan in Egypt is considered the best of the CC series. But this was really good.
I've enjoyed Charlie Chan w/Mantan Moreland movies for sometime. For that time, Ive always thought the CC movies were humorous, respectful and non racist.
I love them and appreciate that a couple of the actors who played Chan were actually acting not just doing broad Chinese stereotypes, but it really is very racist because Chinese roles should be played by Chinese actors, but that would not happen in the 30s. I mean have you seen Kathryn Hepburn play a Chinese character? Awful and pretty racist. Omg and John Wayne being Mongolian? Oh brother! Lol
In themselves Chans don’t seem racist.
well...less racist than some
I remember watching these movies on Sunday afternoon growing up.
Love Charlie Chan moves:). I binge watched them about a year ago (I am 66). Besides the "soul" the old films have (at least for me), it is wonderful to listen to the actors actually using language beautifully, with enunciation almost forgotten now.
🤣🤣🤣 Superb movie 🍿! And so funny at the same time! Thanks for uploading!
Thanks for this. I like the Monograms better than the earlier Foxes because of Mantan Moreland, a fine comedic actor. The scenes between him and the son are always enjoyable. The Monograms don't have the production values of the Foxes but that's precisely why I like them. They are more mysterious and off the beaten track. The Foxes are staid, the Monograms kinetic. Both Oland and Toler are fine, Roland Winters, the last Chan, not so much. I find him sarcastic and dour. He did act in quite a few Chans (6 or 7 I think--I'm too lazy to google it now) but by that time the Monograms were coming apart at the seems and the Chan films were getting sort of played out. The Chan series never had a really first class director except for Phil Karlson who directed two of them. Watch the first 6 minutes of his direction of The Shanghai Cobra---pure noir. He made many terrific noirs later in his career like 99 River Street, Five Against the House, Tight Spot,The Phenix City Story, The Brothers Rico,
You're quite a movie fan.
@@garryferrington811 Yes, and I'm a director.. Noir is my favorite genre and influenced me. Three years ago I finished my first film. You must be quite a movie fan too!!
I used to love watching Charlie Chan movies...the OG Charlie Chan.
Thought I had seen all of the Charlie Chan's, great episode. 👍🏻
I will soon be 71 and have enjoyed the Sidney Toler acting as Charley Chan. Saturdays as a child would be incomplete without these movies along with Tarzan!!!
😂 love these pictures have not watched them for years now glad they are still available
ITS NICE TO HAVE THESE OLD MOVIES ON TH-cam.. ALSO THE THIN MAN.. MOTHER AND I WOULD WATCH THESE MOVIES ALL NIGHT..WITH A POT OF COFFEE. GOOD OLD DAYS..
"You relax, and you survive great ordeal."
That's a cookie-fortune if I've ever heard one😆
Thank you to the person who commented that he/she did NOT understand why it has been stated that Charlie Chan movies were racist. I think there's way too much flaunting of the subject on race/racism!!
Charlie Chan is portrayed by a white person. Charlie's Chinese children are portrayed as immature. Birmingham is portrayed as a coward.
This is the standard portrayal of minorities.
This is why the movie is racist.
On a personal note, I wanted Charlie for a father.
@@paulacornelison243 It's called acting. Look up the word. And notice most of the prisoners are white. You are so overtaken by your virtue signaling.
@@michaelbabbitt3837 Because, in the 40s, most prisoners were white.
Modern mindset is brainwashed to see everything "racist" or "sexist".
@@paulacornelison243What a racist comment!
I’ve watched a lot of movies on TH-cam since I can’t afford paid cable. Watched a lot of bad movies but I always go back to Charley Chan movies. I love this actor with some comedy and patience he shows his children.
Wish I was as smart and anti racist as Charlie, he's a classic example of all that's good in any society ❤
What does racism have to do with this movie??? Jerk!!!
I am 83 and I remember watching Charlie Chan when I was a small child in late 40’s, my older brothers and sisters loved these mysteries …..my favorite Charlie Chan was this guy in , Dark Alibi……
Chan movies are great including the film score.
Great character actors, this is such a classic, it's comforting in a way I can't explain, probably because I'm old now.
No matter how many you watch they are still great
Poor Mr Chan. He never seems to get paid when he does private detective services and saves an innocent life to boot!
Thank you Remember them growing up and their still the Best ever 😊
Christopher here... I've recently been diving into the Charlie Chan films. Some less than great, some are really good! There have some legitimately compelling mysteries.
Glad you are enjoying the film!
The public defender got it made in the end.
Good Charlie Chan from the year of my birth.
Embodiment of integrity, wisdom, and valiance in the face of determined wrongful actions. Miss this.
The black and white movies are so restful to the eyes and brain. None of that flashing lights or disruptive plots...that harm the thinking process.
I've always wondered why "Chinaman" is now considered derogatory. Englishman, Frenchman, Scotsman, etc. are not. smh😖
Amo muito filmes legendados em português, obrigado pela postagem e parabéns pelo seu canal, sou mais um inscrito!
Mantan Moreland made the Charlie Chan movies more enjoyable. Funny as hell. Love him.
I find it fascinating how people with zero knowledge of another person life are always confident to speak on it
This has to be one of the best love the ending 🎉🎉🎉
The conversations between the brothers when then finish each others sentences is priceless!!!
"First time I hear cuckoos outside of clock"😂😂
Birmingham brown later upgraded to Bloomfield Hills brown
I love all the Charlie Chan movies and the one with Mantan Moreland are unforgettable.
They don't make em like this anymore..
"a satisfied flea from dog to dog"
The government!
This film may actually represent a fine expose of faulty crime analysis by a reduction to the absurd. The clowns are everywhere. Brilliant.
Charlie was master of the quick comeback. Pop, I've been thinking. Impossible.
Yes! Poor number 1, or 2, or 3 son. Always trying so hard to please pop and Charlie giving so much grief. haha!z
We had a lot of fun talking bout it on the Orphaned Entertainment podcast!
Love these old detective novels
Birmingham's last lines in this farce are *This is too much* ! Brother you said a mouthful !
❤These movie bring so much enjoyment
Sydney Toler is the best
Our favorite program , from our childhood , my sisters y brothers I joyed seeing Charlie Chan , movies.
Love these movies
Mantan moreland was one of the funniest n greatest comedians in his time I love his funny tactics 😄 😆 🤣 😂 😀 thanks 👌 😊 😘 😄
Ilove allthe charlie chan movies i especially love mantan moreland he isthe funniest character i just wish he was in allof them
me and a friend of mine are so close we used to talk like the two brothers.
Sidney Toler was the best Charlie Chan ever.
Warner Oland...
Love Charlie chan movies watch them all the time ❤
Confucius say Chahlee Chan *COOL*
Montana Moreland open the door for black actors
Used to watch Charlie Chan on WGN - Chicago, Sunday mornings, early 80's. Classic comedy.
Okay!! If you like old movies, let me make some recommendations: The Nightwalker with Barbara Stanwyck and Rod Taylor. Homicidal, I Saw What You Did with Joan Crawford. Thriller with Boris Karloff (and Thriller just happens to be avaikable on Utube). Dark Waters with Merle Oberon. Sudden Fear (Joan Crawford). The Unguarded Moment (Esther Williams). Gilda (Rita Hayworth). The Thin Man series. Betty Grable musicals. Hotel from the Arthur Hailey book (I believe 1967). The original Invisible Man. The Mummy (Boris Karloff). Anything with Hedy Lamar. The Ghostbusters (Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard). The Snoop Sisters (Mildred Natwick and Helen Hayes -- a series of about 5 movies about two old sisters who always get into trouble while solving mysteries). Salome (Tita Hayworth and Stewart Granger). The Hurricane (Dorothy Lamour). Cobra Woman (Sabu and Maria Montez). Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Lauren Bacall). Dracula (Bela Lugosi). It's late at night and that's all I can think of right now.
That is an amazing list! Many of my (Christopher) favorites as well. We are only a few years away from the early Universal horror films hitting public domain!
Moreland, along with the extreme stereotyped eye-rolling cowardly black role, was also given some clever dialogues...with black actors. My fave is the 'answers before question complete' telepathy/adjacent routines, each completing the unspoken info. Hard to describe. You hadda be there. He also lead all black casts in 40s. Was permitted other dialogue play, with restrictions...with Asians in the CC flix. Benson Fong here, or a Chinese 'daughter' in another. Black Magic Also app '46.
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Love Charlie Chan 🤩🤩💖
43:40 1:00:01 Mantan’s psychic partner again. What a duo! :)
Lovin it
Outstanding
ty from Kansas USA (=
Best movies I've I've seen in years are there any more that funny
Birmingham Brown adds a lot of levity to the mystery!
Charlie Chans son. Played Hop Sing on bonanza.
You are thinking of Victor Sen Yung, who DID play Hop Sing and DID appear in several Charlie Chan films. The actor in this film is Benson Fong.
Wow did not know that!
Hop Sing was played by a Chinese man.
@@elizabethneville3086Victor Sen Yung IS Chinese.
Mantan Moreland was a great actor
We had these on tv in denver in the 60's.
Milton Parsons was a great actor.
Birmingham and his friend/brother bill complete each other’s sentences, that’s hilarious 😂🤣
Good movie, thank you. The like button is not working properly.
This reminds me of the movie Rush Hour! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Love these,based on a real guy
Yes! Amazing bit of trivia, isn't it? We mentioned that when we talked about it on the podcast!
Enjoyed the movie but today it would not be appropriate, it is relevant to the time it was made in the 1940s, I hope people can enjoy it for what it is worth.
It’s a movie. It’s appropriate for today - on a rainy Saturday afternoon- and appropriate for future generations. It’s just satisfying entertainment. And if it’s not for some people today, then they don’t have to watch it. But the rest of us can watch it and appreciate the storyline and specially the acting. Sydney Toler was a wonderful Charlie Chan.
Monogram had a tiny little four and a half acre studio with three modest stages and a wee backlot in gay East Hollywood. Now it's owned by Scientology.
Great episode of Charlie chan love Warner oland
Tape lifts from his prints! Lifts with tape and placed anywhere!
Great!!!!!!
older movies the boss in the background nobody knows who he is until the end of the movie and had to be a damn good detective to find the boss
Think I’ve seen them all
The initial scene. Same actor when Ricky was concerned about his hairline
Number 3 son saw number 2 son take a number 1 😂
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Love that do you know, talking 😂 it's brilliant 😊