Charlie Chan Family Chat Archive for the year 2011
Welcome to our list of collected Chat Room film title records from our Charlie Chan Family Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing for the year 2011. The several available chat texts, accessed through the blue linked dates, are from a series of screen captures collected and contributed by Louise Krasiewicz, consisting of portions of the dialogue from that evening which was broken into segments as they were randomly screen captured, and are here spliced together in time order. Please note that all reconstructed texts are incomplete.
Unfortunately, there is no chat text available for most of the Chats listed for this year, however, the title of the featured film for each date along with any other available information is presented is listed below:
1/3/2011: Charlie Chan in Paris
1/10/2011: Charlie Chan in Egypt
1/17/2011: Charlie Chan in Shanghai
1/24/2011: Charlie Chan’s Secret
1/31/2011: Charlie Chan at the Circus
2/7/2011: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
2/14/2011: Charlie Chan at the Opera
2/21/2011: The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (“Our films our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing will be in the form of to 26-minute episodes from The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, as we celebrate the birthday of James Hong, who played Number One Son, Barry in that 1957-58 TV series, starring J. Carrol Naish as his Pop, Charlie Chan! The episodes that we will be viewing will be The Nobel Art of Murder [#20] and The Hand of Hera Dass [#28]”).
2/28/2011: Charlie Chan at the Olympics
3/7/2011: Charlie Chan on Broadway
3/14/2011: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
3/21/2011: Mr. Moto’s Gamble (“Please join with us for our film for this week’s Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing, Mr. Moto’s Gamble, starring Peter Lorre and featuring Keye Luke as Lee Chan in a [film that] had begun as Charlie Chan at the Ringside, the next entry in the Chan series. Early into production, Warner Oland had shown erratic behavior. Production moved along slowly, and scenes not requiring Mr. Oland were shot in his absence so the production could continue. Finally, Oland walked off the set, never, as fate would have it, to return again… Nevertheless, 20th Century-Fox salvaged what they could of the scenes without Oland that had already been shot, and, turning the product into a Mr. Moto movie recouped their losses with Mr. Moto’s Gamble.”)
3/28/2011: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
4/4/2011: Charlie Chan in Reno
4/11/2011: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
4/18/2011: The Sky Dragon
4/25/2011: Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
5/4/2011: Charlie Chan in Panama
5/11/2011: Charlie Chan at the Circus
5/16/2011: Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise
5/23/2011: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
5/30/2011: Murder Over New York
6/6/2011: Dead Men Tell
6/13/2011: Phantom of Chinatown (“Please join us for our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we celebrate the birthday of Keye Luke while we watch and discuss Phantom of Chinatown with Keye Luke in his only starring role. Phantom of Chinatown was the final film in the Mr. Wong detective series which had starred Boris Karloff in the title role.”)
6/20/2011: Charlie Chan in Rio
6/27/2011: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
7/5/2011: Castle in the Desert
7/12/2011: The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (“Please join us for a special Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we watch and discuss two episodes of The New Adventures of Charlie Chan starring J. Carrol Naish as Charlie Chan and featuring James Hong as Number One Son, Barry. The episodes that we will be sharing are The Final Curtain and Death at High Tide.)”
7/19/2011: Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
7/26/2011: The Chinese Cat
8/1/2011: Black Magic/Meeting at Midnight
8/8/2011: The Jade Mask
8/15/2011: The Scarlet Clue
8/22/2011: The Shanghai Cobra
8/29/2011: The Red Dragon
9/5/2011: Dark Alibi
9/12/2011: Shadows Over Chinatown
9/19/2011: Dangerous Money
9/26/2011: The Trap
10/3/2011: Charlie Chan’s Secret (“As our tour through the Charlie Chan series moves into October, please join us for a special edition of our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we watch and discuss Charlie Chan’s Secret, starring Warner Oland, as we celebrate Oland’s birthday!”)
10/10/2011: Mr. Wong in Chinatown (“As our tour through the Charlie Chan series moves through October, please join us for a special edition of our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we watch and discuss Mr. Wong in Chinatown, starring Boris Karloff as detective James Wong, in a film that would become the basis for our Chan film for next week, The Chinese Ring.”)
10/17/2011: The Chinese Ring
10/24/2011: Charlie Chan at the Opera (“Please plan on joining us for our ANNUAL CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY HALLOWEEN PARTY as our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing features Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland…vs. Boris Karloff!”) (Partial costume list: Hawaii_Steve: Jessup; Matt: Arthur Mayo; RChanFan: Black Hook; Rush: Baxter)
10/31/2011: Charlie Chan at the Race Track (“Please plan on joining us for our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we gather to watch and discuss Charlie Chan at the Race Track, starring Warner Oland. On this evening we will be celebrating the running of the famous Melbourne Cup race as is depicted in our featured film. This is an annual event, during which numbers for each horse in the race are handed out randomly. The one holding the lucky number of the actual winner of the race later that evening, will win a vintage Chan-era silver 50-cent piece in honor of Mr. Chan’s bet of that same amount as seen in our movie.”) (Later that evening: “By the slimmest of margins, Dunadin wins this year’s Melbourne Cup horse race! This was the closest finish in Melbourne Cup history wigh Red Cadeaux coming in second by the slimmest of margins [Sorry, Skyler!]. Congratulations to Hounder, who held the “winning ticket”! You have won the coveted 1936 silver 50-cent piece!”)
11/7/2011: The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (“Please join us for this week’s Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we watch and discuss two episodes from The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, starring J. Carrol Naish as Charlie Chan and James Hong as Number One Son, Barry! The adventures that we will be sharing are Patron of the Arts [episode 16] and The Chippendale Racket [episode 29]”).
11/14/2011: Docks of New Orleans
11/21/2011: Mr. Wong, Detective (“As we draw nearer to the conclusion of our tour through the Charlie Chan series, please join us for our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we take a slight detour and watch and discuss Mr Wong, Detective, as we commemorate the birthday of Boris Karloff.”)
11/28/2011: Shanghai Chest
12/5/2011: The Golden Eye
12/12/2011: The Feathered Serpent
12/19/2011: The Sky Dragon
12/26/2011: The Black Camel (“We are at an intermission between our just-completed trip through the Charlie Chan film series and the beginning of our next journey. Tonight, our ‘bonus’ before we embark on our 2012 tour will be in the form of a birthday celebration for Detective Chang Apana of the Honolulu Police, without whom, Charlie Chan would probably not have graced the pages of books or seen the light of the silver screen. So, please join us for our Monday Evening Chat and Film Viewing as we watch and discuss The Black Camel, starring Warner Oland, in a film that was shot in great part on location in and around Chang Apana’s Honolulu. In fact, the ‘two Chans,’ Apana and Oland met during the filming of this picture! This was the second film in the Charlie Chan film series and is the oldest surviving entry. The first film to truly feature Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan Carries On, was a big hit, and had played in Honolulu just a few months before shooting began in that city. As Charlie Chan solves the mystery of just who was it who killed Shelah Fane, and why, we commemorate the birthday of Detective Chang Apana…”)
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