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Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 3 (Charlie Chan's Secret / Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo / Charlie Chan on Broadway / The Black Camel)

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: Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 3 (Charlie Chan's Secret / Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo / Charlie Chan on Broadway / The Black Camel)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543457640
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Running Time: 374 minutes
Sales Rank: 5329
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1937



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Disc 1: Charlie Chan's Secret (1936) **Full Frame Feature (B&W) **Commentary by Film Critic Ken Hanke & Film Historian John Cork **Charlie Chan and the Rise of the Modern Detective **Dr. Henry Lee: The Modern Day Charlie Chan **Restoration Comparison **Still Gallery

Disc 2: Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) **Full Frame Feature (B&W) **The World of Charlie Chan **Chanograms: The Aphorisms of Charlie Chan **Restoration Comparison **Still Gallery

Disc 3: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937) Side A: **Full Frame Feature (B&W) **Charlie Chan is Missing: The Last Days of Warner Oland **Restoration Comparison **Still Gallery **'Warner Oland is Charlie Chan' Poster Gallery

Side B: **'Behind That Curtain' (B&W) (91:00) **Released in 1929, this film features the first appearance of the Charlie Chan character at Fox.

Disc 4: Charlie Chan - The Black Camel (1931) **Full Frame Feature - B&W **Commentary by Film Critic Ken Hanke & Film Historian John Cork **Charlie Chan's Chance: A Recreation of a Lost Chan **Restoration Comparison **Still Gallery

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'Hollywood is famous furnisher of mysteries,' observes the honorable Honolulu detective, Charlie Chan, in The Black Camel. And few cinematic sleuths are as renowned or beloved as Chan. As the chief of police proclaims in Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, 'All the world knows of Charlie Chan.' For devotees of Earl Derr Biggers' literary creation, this is an essential boxed set that marks the beginnings and the end of the franchise's Warner Oland golden era. In addition to vintage treats such as The Black Camel (1931), the earliest known-existing Chan film to star Oland as the iconic sleuth, it also contains intriguing extras, including the 1929 film Behind the Curtain, which features E.L. Park as Chan in this character's first (albeit fleeting) screen appearance in a Fox film (and, like butler Jeeves' mere one-sentence walk-on in the P.G. Wodehouse short story 'Extricating Young Gussie,' it is a most inauspicious beginning for such a towering figure in popular culture).

The Swedish-born Oland portrayed Chan in 16 films. This set includes his last two as Chan before his untimely death in 1938, Monte Carlo and Charlie Chan on Broadway, both released in 1937. Give your regards to Broadway, in which a dame 'still hot enough to blister' is murdered over an incriminating diary. This set also includes the eerie Charlie Chan's Secret (1936). The films are a bit creaky, but that's part of the fun. Each has its charms and delights, from the rat-a-tat New York slang that baffles Chan in Broadway to his signature aphorisms that range from the sage ('Though loved one seem to be taken away, remain always near') to the puzzling ('Sometimes very difficult to pick up pumpkin with one finger'). Keye Luke provides comic relief as enthusiastic No. 1 son in Monte Carlo and Broadway. Camel features Robert Young in his official screen debut and Bela Lugosi, fresh from Dracula, as a sinister mystic with too much influence on an actress with a skeleton in her closet. The audio commentaries on Camel and Secret are efficient and informative (did you know that Goldfinger villain Odd Job was styled on Chan's look?). Other entertaining segments unearth Oland's career, Chan's influence on detective fiction, and those 'Chan-isms.' Also fascinating is a re-creation of Charlie Chan's Chance, one of four lost Oland/Chan films. For those who have yet to make Charlie's acquaintance, this Chan-tastic collection is an excellent introduction. As one admiring cop states in Broadway, 'You just think you have (met a detective). Now, go and meet Charlie Chan.' --Donald Liebenson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great early mystery movies...
I love the early Charlie Chan movies. There are always many "plot twists" that keep you guessing, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Charlie Chan Is the Greatest!
One more and I will have the entire collection of Charlie Chan movies. Yes, I like him that much. His ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - CHARLIE CHAN FAN
I AM A CHARLIE CHAN FAN - SO OF COURSE I ENJOYED THESE - FORGOT HOW SIMPLE THEY ARE BUT STILL FUN. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Charlie Chan Vol 3
If you like the series you will enjoy this continuation.
One of the pluses for me was the actual ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The uncredited music in the Black Camel
Most everything that needs to have been said has been except for the commentary track on the Black Camel ... Read More

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