The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for November 30, 2020
Feature:
The Golden Eye
Extra:
The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack (Chapter 9)
Participants:
Godwinshelley2
hounder
Louise
Lulu
Matt1
PaulM
Rush
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Rush:
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Rush: Hello. Lulu!
Rush: elcome!
Rush: (W)
Lulu: Hi Rush. I’m back after last week.
Rush: Yes! I am happy we didn’t scare you away! 🙂
Lulu: Did you finish The Chinese Parrot?
Rush: No, I didn’t get the chance to read it last week!
Rush: Busy holiday!
Rush: How was tiur Thanksgiving?
Rush: (your)
Lulu: I’m reading Charlie Chan Carries On.
Rush: Nice one!
Rush: I have the illustrated version vintage cpoy.
Lulu: Thanksgiving was lonely. Only the two of us.
Rush: Illustrated with pictures from the lost movie.
Lulu: I thnk thes
Rush: We had our immediate family this year.
Lulu: I think there is a Spanish version o
Rush: Four of us plus my mother-in-law.
Rush: Yes!
Rush: “Eran Trece”
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Rush: (“There were Thirteen”)
Matt1: Hello Rush & Lulu!
Lulu: I;ve seen it.
Rush: We share that film as our second movie of the year each year.
Rush: Hello, Matt!
Lulu: Hi Matt1
Rush: Good evening to you!
Matt1: And to you…..Hope Thanksgiving was as well as it could be!
Rush: Our first meeting of the year is always “Behind That Curtain.”
Lulu: I’m sorry to hear of your loss Rush.
Rush: From 1929 with Boris Karloff in an early role.
Rush: My loss?
Lulu: Is it a talkie
Rush: Did I make a typo above?
Lulu: I read that wrong
Rush: AH!
Rush: We have been very blessed in that regard, lulu.
Lulu: thank God
Rush: YES!!!
Rush: How are you tonight, Matt?
Matt1: Pretty good, thnx….u?
Rush: Well, thank you! I drove to school this morning, only to find it was CLOSED!
Matt1: Really?
Rush: I missed an email over the vacation!
Matt1: Online?
Rush: Yes, but my position makes it kind of worthless, as i would need the teachers to work out a way to send the kids over to me.
Rush: So, it looks like a week off without pay.
Rush: Anyway..I cannot complain!
Matt1: Ouch…..This year can’t end soon enough
Rush: OH…and my glasses were smashed today! I was leaving a store, pulled off my mask. When I was driving, i realized I had lost my glasses! I hurried back…but too late, a car had smashed them!
Rush: Strange day!
Lulu: Hope 2021 is Better
Rush: We ALL do!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: I won’t jinx it by saying it couldn’t be worse!
Matt1: I would think teachers would be early vaccination candidates after 1st responders?
Matt1: Or close to top
Rush: Tonight’s movie has a very fun ending!
Rush: Birmingham does something that is really unique!!!
Rush: He addresses us, the audience directly in the closing moments!
Lulu: I love Birmingham
Matt1: It’s fun, yes
Rush: I do too, Lulu. He is SO important to the Monogram Chan movies!
Lulu: For a few years I understand he has one of the highest paid in Hollywood
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Rush: That would make sense, perhaps, as he stayed pretty busy!
hounder: hi everyone.
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Lulu: I love his routine with his partner
Lulu: Hi hounder
Rush: His forte was the “B” movie, though, so not lots of money to be had in that realm.
Rush: Hello, Hounder!
hounder: hope everyone is well
Rush: Doing well, thank you, Hounder, and you, and your mother?
hounder: pretty well.
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Rush: Hello, Louise!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
hounder: hi louise
Rush: Good evening!
Louise: Well hello all you early birds.
Louise: Since you seemed to be having such a nice conversation I thought I would crash the party.
Rush: Yes…youself happily included in our little “nest”!
Louise: I am not usually ready so early.
Lulu: Hi l
Rush: Happy you were tonight, Louise!
Lulu: Louise
Louise: Hi Lulu. Welcome back
Lulu: Thanks
Louise: I made turkey soup today so that is the last of the Thanksgiving meals!
Rush: I am busy putting the 2021 calendar together, and in the coming year, we will be listening to Chan radio mysteries as our weekly warmup!
Matt1: Fun!
Lulu: After last week I didn’t think I’d do it again
hounder: yea. i like those rush
Rush: Really, lulu?
Rush: I think they are fun!
Lulu: I coudn’t type so quickly on a laptop
hounder: did we do something to turn you off lulu
Rush: We will hear the Landini episodes, which were based on “Keeper of the Keys.”
Rush: Lulu, I think you will appreciate those!
hounder: that’s no problem for us lulu. and we don’t worry about typos
Lulu: Oh no hounder, just the opposite
Rush: Especially if you have read the book!
Louise: We also don’t worry about commenting all the time. I regularly disappear to get food!
Rush: Lulu…I am blushingly the “master” of the TYPO!
Lulu: H
Matt1: Or fall asleep
Lulu: Ha ha, youe
Rush: You have seen some examples already!
Rush: 🙂
Lulu: You have competition
Matt1: I’m ready here!
Rush: Well…we can watch our serial…
Louise: Well Rush, we could have a count today and see if I win the typo wars
Rush: Please access it above and pause it till we are all ready!
Louise: Back later…
Rush: Let’s say…60 seconds…
Rush: 40 seconds…
Lulu: How do we access it?
Rush: TIME OUT!
Rush: At the top of our Chat Board you see “The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack”?
Matt1: The link above this chat room
Rush: That’s the link to the serial.
Rush: See it?
hounder: ready here
Rush: Also, tonight’s movie is just above it, if you need it.
Rush: Just click on it, Lulu, and the serial opens in a new window.
Lulu: I’m sorry I opened the chat in a new window
Rush: That’s okay.
Rush: Do you have the serial ready, Lulu?
Rush: Did it work?
Lulu: Begint he serial without me I’ll come early next week SORRY I don’t want to hold you guys usp
Rush: We can go ahead and start, and we can get you to the right spot!
Lulu: Bye
Rush: Okay!30 seconds…
Rush: NO!
Rush: Please stay!
Rush: NO PROBLEM!
Rush: Here we go….
Rush: 20 seconds…
Rush: 15…
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Rush: 10….
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!
Rush: Title….
Rush: Credits….
Rush: BOMB!
Rush: Three Chan actors….
Rush: Luke, Toler, Ahn…
Rush: December 8, 1941…Honolulu
Rush: Looks like they are adrift near some islands.
Rush: I am sorry that Lulu thought she should leave.
Matt1: We’ll bring her up to speed next week….Learning process
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Thankfully, no sharks in the water!
Rush: Negotiations…
Rush: “The German Black Samuri”
Rush: Sounds a bit odd!
Rush: Multi-cultural assassins.
Rush: Seriuos stuff!
Matt1: Nothing to see here
Rush: Right!
Rush: A switcheroo.
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Godwinshelley2: Hello all
Rush: Good evening, GS!
hounder: hi gs
Rush: How are you tonight?
Louise: I’m back…but not doing the serial
Louise: Hi GS
Godwinshelley2: Doing ok on the coast
Rush: We got a late start on the serial tonight…
Louise: Crazy storms here today
Rush: Good to hear, GS!
Godwinshelley2: Will the main feature be late?
Rush: Yes, Louise?
Rush: No.
Rush: it will run on time!
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued here
Louise: Heavy rain and wild winds
Godwinshelley2: Yes Louise – we had those too earlier
Rush: 4 minutes left in the serial.
Louise: CUED here, too
Rush: They left Janet behind!
Rush: I am cued as well.
Rush: “The Golden Eye”
Matt1: Cued
hounder: ready here
Rush: Approaching the cliffhanger moment…
Matt1: <clap-clap>
Rush: Why did they crash the car to avound that slight crossing guard?
Rush: (Applause…)
Rush: Okay!
Rush: Are we ready for tonight’s feature?
Rush: “The Golden Eye”
Rush: Look for the closing moments tonight. A really UNIQUE moment where BB addresses us DIRECTLY!
Godwinshelley2: 4th wall alert!
Rush: TWO minutes…
Rush: YES!
Rush: 90 seconds…
Louise: That will be fun to see (the BB end).
Rush: 75 seconds…
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: 50 seconds…
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Louise: Yay!
Rush: Here wego…
Godwinshelley2: Why does Wanda McKay get special billing
Louise: feet
Rush: Good question.
Godwinshelley2: Looks like cuffed pants are the fashion
Rush: Chow mein
Rush: Chop suey
Rush: Making me hungry!
Rush: Lee Tung Foo…our old friend.
Rush: Chinese New year.
Louise: This may be the first time I am seeing this movie. It does not look familiar to me.
Rush: Chinese New Year was on February 10 in 1948
Rush: This is an interesting one, louise!
Louise: I think because we watch it around Thanskgiving and I am usually travelling
Rush: Bad aim!
Rush: Or, was that on purpose?
Godwinshelley2: Washington St was on my walking tour – you had to go uphill there
Rush: Chan came out of the rain, by the look of thr droplets on his hat.
Rush: Funny rendition here.
Louise: Oh Lordy! I may never get that cowboy outfit out of my mind!
Rush: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: Like the belt wrapped in front
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Godwinshelley2: Hello Paul
Rush: Funny bit with the suitcase.
PaulM: good evening
Godwinshelley2: 6:30 into film
Rush: WELCOME, Paul!
Godwinshelley2: 6:45
Godwinshelley2: 7:00
Rush: BB fixes the problem!
Rush: Put a belt around it!
Godwinshelley2: socks with sandals
Rush: At the Lazy Y Ranch…
Matt1: Lt Mike!
Rush: Fashion plate!
Louise: Lots of drunks in Chan movies
Rush: Lt. Mike…under cover…
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Godwinshelley2: Bet his clothing color scheme is a wowser
Rush: But there’s a purpose to this one!
Louise: Yes, GS. It would be fun to see it in color
Godwinshelley2: Jacket doesn’t seem to match the pants
Rush: Looks like a leisure suit from 30 years in the future!
Godwinshelley2: Doesn’t it have that belt-in-the-back look like the Desi Arnez jackets
Rush: I used to sell those, including the Bill Blass shirt.
Godwinshelley2: no I gess not
Godwinshelley2: It’s tucked along the top back seam – interesting – like you see on artist smocks
hounder: time please?
Rush: Chan takes it all in…
Godwinshelley2: 11:40
Godwinshelley2: 11:45
Rush: 11:50
Godwinshelley2: 12:00
Louise: Hello Charlie
Rush: 12:10
hounder: thanks, cat stooped the player
Rush: AH!
Rush: Here comes a splash!
Godwinshelley2: That’s a small pool by today’s standards
Rush: Yes it is.
Rush: A wading pool.
Louise: He’s a good physical actor
Godwinshelley2: Welcome to the Plaid room
Louise: I like the lamp
Rush: This was probably shot at an L.A. area motel.
Godwinshelley2: They seem to like “patterns” in this room
Rush: Yes! Nice vintage lamp!
Godwinshelley2: Again, color might be eye-popping
Rush: Probably right!
hounder: that room might be hard on he eyes if it were in color
Rush: “So much for so much.”
Godwinshelley2: Now Tommy was not to use Lt Ruak – and then Charlie just does it again
Rush: Yes, Hounder!
Godwinshelley2: See mike boom reflected in car hood as charlie exited car
Rush: AH!
Rush: Good catch!
Rush: Alliteration!
Rush: “Manager of Mr. Manning’s Mine.”
Louise: I wonder what Chan really has in that box
Louise: Opiates for several days: sounds like fun
Rush: Good question.
Rush: Yes, louise.
Rush: That will keep him spaced out.
Rush: On Lee’s baseball team.
Rush: Looks like that lamp has a ship’s helm design below the shade.
Louise: I wan to be a cowgirl!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: “Desert presents many mysteries.”
Rush: The prospector.
Louise: In some of my historical research about the 19th century, I studied a gold assayer from a famous family of assayers who cheated his clients and ended up in prison. Oddball story.
Rush: Appropriate to tonight’s film!
Rush: Into the mine…
Godwinshelley2: I was reading about a girl in 1938 who went to jail for wearing pants/slacks.
Rush: Really?
Rush: Where did that happen?
Godwinshelley2: Helen Hulick – in LA – Nov 9, 1938
hounder: there are some really odd ball laws still on the books
Godwinshelley2: She was going to testify against 2 men in court for something and the judge went all crazy since she was wearing slacks. Was ordered to go home and put on a dress.
Rush: “Where there’s shoes, there’s feet. And where there’s feet, there’s legs. And where there’s legs, there’s a body.”
Rush: Here comes an “Echo” bit…
Godwinshelley2: I guess the story was from the LA Times
Rush: Proper judge of the era!
Godwinshelley2: And I was not allowed to wear slacks in school until Senior high school – after we had a sitdown strke about it
Rush: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: Indiana is COLD in the winter – skirts are just stupid when you have to walk to school
Rush: It was the same at my high school, too.
Louise: GS: I was never able to wear pants to school: only uniforms with skirts
Rush: Short skirts were the main concern then!
Godwinshelley2: Yuck – I was public school – so weird rules but no uniform
Godwinshelley2: Our band uniforms were skirts for girls, slacks for boys – and the Christmas parade was miserably cold
Rush: I wonder if he noticed his breath doesn’t smell of alcohol?
hounder: i was in high school bfore we could wear slacks…. not jeans. ans yes it was very cold waiting in a dress at the bus stop
Rush: Long black fade there.
Rush: I thought my DVD player stopped for a moment!
Rush: BB nearly spills the beans here.
Rush: he doesn’t know that she knows CC’s real identity, though!
Louise: I remember this now. The nun is problematic
Rush: Yes.
Rush: CC probes here.
Rush: CLUE!
Rush: Shoe-clue.
Rush: Some Spanish here…
Louise: We don’t have a lot of time
Rush: Right!
Rush: Good job!
Rush: Probably filmed in the San Fernando Valley.
Rush: West end…near Chattsworth.
Rush: We will see the same area (in my opinion) next week.
Louise: Bang
Rush: No…GOLD.
Rush: Slow posts!
Rush: Ah, working again.
Rush: Again, it’s a GOLD mine!
Louise: I would not shoot in a mine
Rush: NO!
Rush: Speaking of the boys…
Louise: Lots of guns.
Rush: Yes…
Rush: Lt. Mike faints…loss of blood…
Louise: Sister
Rush: Or…”sister.”
Rush: A bargain, even in today’s dollars!
Rush: Where the car just drove, looks like a spot in a park that I visited as a kid.
Rush: It was Chattsworth park.”
Rush: Some “Classic Birmingham” comming.
Rush: Or…coming…
Rush: Notice the foot moving…
Rush: Poor BB.
Rush: Mr. Manning’s mobile body brings to mind “A Weekend at Bernies.”
Louise: Jump
Rush: Tommy dodged just in time there!
Louise: Those foam rocks would hurt!
Rush: 🙂
Louise: sista…
Rush: “Sister’s” mood changes here…
Louise: yep!
Rush: And, Mr. Manning changed, too!
Louise: Sex change
Rush: In a manner of speaking…yes!
Rush: This is the first of her shocks tonight….
Rush: The second one is just around the corner.
Louise: Ouch
hounder: Charlie is good at this.
Rush: Second disappointment for Miss Manning.
hounder: nite y’all
Louise: #1 suspect from first? Really?
hounder: see you next week
Rush: Wait one minute, hounder…
hounder: ok
Rush: Fun bit coming…
Rush: Here!
Matt1: Fun
Godwinshelley2: 4th wall
Louise: Great ending BB
Rush: There we are!
Rush: BB talked directly to US!
Matt1: <yee-haw>
hounder: i guess i was a little ahead
Rush: perfect ending!
Rush: Next Week….
Godwinshelley2: Was there a 3-d craze around then
?
Rush: “The Feathered Serpent.”
Louise: Ah, another archaeolofgy one
Rush: Looked that way, GS!
Rush: So….
Rush: Have a wonderful week….
Matt1: Good night folks and hope you have a great week
Rush: Be HAPPY….
Rush: Be SAFE!
Rush: Thank you ALL as ALWYS!
Godwinshelley2: Ok – be safe out there
Rush: FUN night!
Louise: Nite to all!
Rush: Good night!
Godwinshelley2: night all
Rush: Take care.
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Rush: Be well.
Rush: My best to all of you!
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Rush: TYSM, Paul, Louise, Hounder.
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Rush: Good night, Hounder!
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