The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for March 23, 2026
Feature: Charlie Chan at the Opera
Chat Number: 1,353
Extra:
AMC Introduction for Charlie Chan at the Opera (1991)
Note:
“TYSM” count: 7 (Total from all films thus far: 113)
Participants:
Austinchanfan
Charlie’s ANGEL
Dona
Godwinshelley
hounder
Louise
Matt
Mike in DC
Nothere
rich in Maine
Rush
tenman
03-23 18:00
Rush:
03-23 18:45
Matt:
Hello Rush!
03-23 18:45
Rush:
Good evening, Matt!
03-23 18:46
Rush:
How are you tonight?
Ready for the opera?
03-23 18:46
Matt:
Pretty good, thnx…..Went to the last Phillies spring training game today, soooooo it was a good day!
How about yourself?
03-23 18:47
Rush:
NICE! Very envious!
Doing well, thank you. First day back at work in a while. Everyone was dragging! 
03-23 18:47
Matt:
Everything last week went Ok?
03-23 18:48
Rush:
Yes! Marie is doing great. She took today and tomorrow off as she’s a bit tired out still from the whole thing.
03-23 18:48
Matt:
Wonderful…..Please send her our best
03-23 18:48
Rush:
Will do!
03-23 18:49
Rush:
Were you able to see the players up close today?
03-23 18:49
Matt:
Oh, as a FYI, I need to travel to my mother in laws next week, so I won’t be here
03-23 18:50
Rush:
Okay. I hope that all is well with your mother-in-law.
03-23 18:50
Matt:
Spring training games are very up close and personal…..very relaxed atmosphere with players
03-23 18:51
Rush:
Ahhh….nice.
It’s been way too long since I was at a Spring training game.
03-23 18:51
Matt:
She needs to be retested for DMV 
03-23 18:51
Rush:
I see.
03-23 18:51
Matt:
Could be an interesting trip
03-23 18:52
Rush:
Hopefully not TOO interesting.
Routine can be a plus!
03-23 18:53
Matt:
We’ll see how everything goes, but decisions may have to be made
03-23 18:54
Rush:
Yes. Thankfully, my mom voluntarily stopped driving at the right time.
03-23 18:55
Mike in DC:
Good evening!
03-23 18:55
Rush:
I do worry a bit for my mother-in-law, though, as she’s 90 now and still driving.
03-23 18:55
Matt:
Hello Doc!
03-23 18:56
Rush:
Good evening, Mike!
Where’s the new Doctor this evening, Mike?
03-23 18:56
Mike in DC:
she’s back in Ann Arbor for a couple of weeks. boo.
03-23 18:57
Rush:
Hopefully for a restful visit?
03-23 18:58
Mike in DC:
back to work (she still has her assistantship to finish..)
03-23 18:59
Matt:
It never ends!
Hello Louise!
03-23 18:59
Louise:
Greeting Chan Clan!
03-23 19:00
Rush:
Hello, Louise!
Good evening to you!
03-23 19:00
Mike in DC:
Hi Louise!
03-23 19:00
Rush:
Yay!
03-23 19:00
Louise:
All set to go to the opera!
03-23 19:00
Rush:
Yes!
03-23 19:00
Matt:
Always a fun night
03-23 19:00
Louise:
+Made popcorn and ready
03-23 19:01
Rush:
14 minutes…
I have in “impromtu” extra we can see. I just pulled it up from Youtube.
03-23 19:01
Matt:
Cool!
03-23 19:02
Rush:
I’ll wait a couple more minutes..just in case more drop in!
03-23 19:04
Rush:
Spring it trying its best to happen in my area! We had a day with a high of 83 this weekend!
03-23 19:04
Matt:
Nice!
03-23 19:04
Rush:
Down to 50ish today…
03-23 19:05
Rush:
Hounder!
03-23 19:05
Matt:
Hello Hounder!
03-23 19:05
Rush:
WELCOME!
03-23 19:05
Mike in DC:
hi hounder
03-23 19:05
Rush:
Here is the link to an EXTRA we can share!
I will count down…
Ready?
03-23 19:05
Mike in DC:
all set
03-23 19:06
Louise:
ready
03-23 19:06
Rush:
30 seconds…
20….
15…
10…
5…
GO!!!
03-23 19:07
Rush:
Dona!
WELCOME!
03-23 19:07
Matt:
Hello Dona!
03-23 19:07
Dona:
Hello!!!!
So good to be back.
03-23 19:07
Rush:
YES!
How have you been?
03-23 19:07
Matt:
Welcome back!
03-23 19:08
Dona:
It’s been a while.
I’m good, I retired.
03-23 19:08
Rush:
Yes it has! How long exactly?
03-23 19:08
Matt:
Congrats! 
03-23 19:08
Louise:
Great intro to the movie and I did not know he Germans banned it
03-23 19:08
Mike in DC:
Hi Dona!
03-23 19:08
Louise:
Hi Dona
03-23 19:09
Rush:
Yes, Louise! “Too many murders”!!!
03-23 19:09
Dona:
It’s been over a year since I’ve been here. I retired last February
03-23 19:09
Louise:
Rush, that sounds like a joke
03-23 19:09
Dona:
Hello Everyone!
03-23 19:09
Rush:
Yes!
03-23 19:09
Mike in DC:
That is a great intro
03-23 19:09
Matt:
Nice intro Rush, thnx!
03-23 19:09
hounder:
hi everyone.
03-23 19:09
Louise:
Dona, hope you are enjoying retirement. I love it.
03-23 19:10
Rush:
I am so happy that you are here with us t0night, Dona!
03-23 19:10
Dona:
I am loving it.
03-23 19:10
Mike in DC:
And…congratulations, Dona. I hope retirement is treating you well!
03-23 19:10
Louise:
Hi hounder
03-23 19:10
hounder:
congrats dona
03-23 19:10
Dona:
Thank you!
03-23 19:11
Rush:
How are things back your way, Dona…and congratulations on the retirement!
Rich! Welcome!
03-23 19:11
rich in Maine:
evening Dona,hounder, Louise, Matt, Mike, and Rush !
03-23 19:11
Matt:
Hello Rich!
03-23 19:11
Dona:
It’s been warm here. California hasn’t changed much.
03-23 19:11
Rush:
4 minutes…
03-23 19:11
Louise:
Hi Rich, Hi Mike
03-23 19:11
Matt:
Hello Nothere!
03-23 19:11
Rush:
NT!
WELCOME!!!
03-23 19:11
hounder:
hi nt
03-23 19:11
Louise:
And I missed matt
03-23 19:11
Nothere:
Hey Matt. I hope your dressed for the opera.
03-23 19:12
Rush:
THREE MINUTES….
03-23 19:12
Nothere:
Hey Rush Hound
03-23 19:12
Matt:
Cued here!
Hello Tenman!
03-23 19:12
Louise:
Nothere is now-here
03-23 19:12
tenman:
Hola todos!
03-23 19:12
rich in Maine:
have my opera glasses and long gloves ready
03-23 19:12
Nothere:
GENTELMEN START YOUR ENGINES
03-23 19:12
Louise:
Hi tenman
03-23 19:12
Rush:
03-23 19:12
hounder:
ready here
03-23 19:12
Louise:
cued
03-23 19:12
Rush:
There’s the online copy, if needed.
03-23 19:12
rich in Maine:
overture warming up
03-23 19:13
Rush:
TWO MINUTES….
03-23 19:13
Dona:
Cued here too.
03-23 19:13
Rush:
Cure tot he opening title, please…
03-23 19:13
Nothere:
THere was a man with a going in my way bujt I have arrived at the opening credits
03-23 19:13
Rush:
90 seconds…
(CUE)
03-23 19:13
Nothere:
gong even
03-23 19:14
Rush:
Short for “queue”!
60 seconds…
50 seconds…
03-23 19:14
Nothere:
as long as theres no line
03-23 19:14
Charlie’s ANGEL:
MIMIMIMI!!
03-23 19:14
Rush:
50 seconds…
03-23 19:14
Nothere:
LALALALA
03-23 19:14
Rush:
30….
25…
03-23 19:14
Nothere:
Hello whoever justy arrrived
03-23 19:14
Rush:
20…
15…
03-23 19:14
Austinchanfan:
to the opera we go
03-23 19:14
Rush:
10…
03-23 19:14
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Lalalalala
03-23 19:14
Rush:
5….
GO!!!
03-23 19:15
Matt:
03-23 19:15
Charlie’s ANGEL:
KLONG
03-23 19:15
Rush:
Music….
title….
03-23 19:15
Charlie’s ANGEL:
H B H !!
03-23 19:15
Rush:
Credits….
03-23 19:15
Matt:
Hello Austin & Angel!
03-23 19:15
rich in Maine:
get the rain machine started
03-23 19:15
Austinchanfan:
hi my fellow chan friends and fans’
03-23 19:15
Mike in DC:
The famous “Carnival duet”
03-23 19:15
Rush:
Yes, Angel!
03-23 19:15
Charlie’s ANGEL:
My dog just started howling
03-23 19:15
Nothere:
ordinarily I’d make a joke about not wanting to go, but I should check my hat and cape with the hat check girl. Can’t wear them all opera.
03-23 19:15
Louise:
Oscar Levant was an interesting and controversial character
03-23 19:15
Rush:
Welcome….ACF, Angel, GS, and TM!
03-23 19:16
rich in Maine:
Rush, I reserved the box seats for tonite, didn’t I?
03-23 19:16
Austinchanfan:
hi rush
03-23 19:16
Rush:
Rain!
03-23 19:16
Nothere:
<KAQTHOOM>
03-23 19:16
Mike in DC:
He was that, Louise
03-23 19:16
Rush:
Thunder!
Hi, ACF!
03-23 19:16
Nothere:
<KATHOOM>
03-23 19:16
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Always check out Sanitarium Towns, when you’re looking to buy a mansion.
Hot outfits!
03-23 19:17
Austinchanfan:
Karloff is king
03-23 19:17
Nothere:
Sanitariums town? Thats one big snatitarium.
03-23 19:17
Rush:
03-23 19:17
Louise:
He does madness so well
03-23 19:17
tenman:
Makes me thinkg of King of Hearts!
03-23 19:17
Rush:
Ah!
03-23 19:17
Dona:
Yes Louise he does
03-23 19:17
Nothere:
Oh and yes Rich. You are in box 12
03-23 19:18
rich in Maine:
thanks NT
03-23 19:18
Charlie’s ANGEL:
I used to go to some special-interest watering spots in Boston where Thursday nights would bring a lot of guys dressed as U-boat captains.
03-23 19:19
Rush:
Yes?
Uh-oh…
03-23 19:19
Nothere:
Oh he’ll take his escape nice and easy.
03-23 19:19
rich in Maine:
guess they didn’t have emergency pull cords
03-23 19:19
Rush:
Headline!
03-23 19:19
Charlie’s ANGEL:
These guys look like those pics where you slice out just the eyes, and just invert them.
03-23 19:19
Rush:
Another…
And another…
03-23 19:20
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Headline is unhelpfully unspecific.
03-23 19:20
Matt:
Car 54…..
03-23 19:20
Godwinshelley:
Finally – this thing kept making me login – but wouldn’t let me post
03-23 19:20
Rush:
Actual streets named from downtown L.A.
03-23 19:20
Charlie’s ANGEL:
ROCHELLE ROCHELLE!
03-23 19:20
Nothere:
EXtree Extree read all about it. Chan Vamily reads nearly one hundred year old headline. Missed other stories in paper.
03-23 19:20
Matt:
Hello GS!
03-23 19:20
rich in Maine:
so is the attendant dead or not?
03-23 19:20
Dona:
Hi GS
03-23 19:20
Austinchanfan:
William demerst before my three sons
03-23 19:20
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Buncha gloomy Gustavs.
03-23 19:21
Nothere:
Hey Gs
03-23 19:21
rich in Maine:
Chop Suey !!!!
03-23 19:21
Rush:
“Chop suey”
03-23 19:21
Mike in DC:
TYSM sighting
03-23 19:21
Dona:
LOL
03-23 19:21
Nothere:
Oh sure the crazy man would never do something nutty like going to an airport without money.
03-23 19:21
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Underling’s voice is not unlike FRED ALLEN’S.
03-23 19:22
Rush:
03-23 19:22
Charlie’s ANGEL:
TY
03-23 19:22
Rush:
Number one…
03-23 19:22
Austinchanfan:
funny chop suey is an American creation
03-23 19:22
Godwinshelley:
I couldn’t miss the Karloff one – and now with enhanced opera comprehension
03-23 19:22
Rush:
“The Race Track Case”
03-23 19:22
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Not more NOBLE ANIMALS, one hopes.
03-23 19:22
Louise:
Hi GS
03-23 19:22
Nothere:
Enhanced God?
03-23 19:23
Godwinshelley:
PLUS – thank you for showing the Karloff one right around my birthday!!
Nothere – via the lovely presentation by Mike in Warren
03-23 19:23
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Or undocumented affluence.
03-23 19:23
Nothere:
That dart is his idea of small? He must have on heck of idea of big.
03-23 19:23
Austinchanfan:
happy early birthday Shelley
03-23 19:23
Rush:
Dona, you know I no longer live in SoCal?
03-23 19:23
Godwinshelley:
Actually it was Saturday
03-23 19:23
Nothere:
Happy Birthday God.
03-23 19:23
Godwinshelley:
Thank you
03-23 19:23
Austinchanfan:
happy belated then
03-23 19:23
Dona:
Yes. You moved to Iowa
03-23 19:23
Rush:
Yes, GS…an early Happy Birthday to you!
03-23 19:23
Dona:
Is that correct
03-23 19:24
Nothere:
Happy late birthday person apparently named Shelly.
03-23 19:24
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Dude GOTTA be F.A.
03-23 19:24
Dona:
Happy Birthday GS. When is your bid?
03-23 19:24
rich in Maine:
Fox fur spotting
03-23 19:24
Godwinshelley:
bid?
03-23 19:24
Dona:
birthday
03-23 19:24
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Chan thinks: who the duck is THIS?
03-23 19:24
Godwinshelley:
it was Saturday
03-23 19:24
Nothere:
The fur has arrived with a lafdy in tow.
03-23 19:25
Austinchanfan:
the old note in the flower trick
03-23 19:25
Louise:
yes nothere
03-23 19:25
Matt:
Happy Birthday, GS! 
03-23 19:25
Rush:
Yes, ACF!
03-23 19:25
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Say it with bold-tip MARKS-A,-LOT!
03-23 19:25
Godwinshelley:
Thank you all
03-23 19:25
rich in Maine:
“Say it with flowers”……YOU WILL DIE
03-23 19:25
Rush:
Yes, Rich!
03-23 19:25
Louise:
Happy upcoming birthday GS
03-23 19:25
Nothere:
Avoiding the mad ones is usually a sound policy.
03-23 19:26
Rush:
Enrico….
03-23 19:26
Austinchanfan:
was his name berello’
03-23 19:27
rich in Maine:
Perfume or after shave?
03-23 19:27
Austinchanfan:
berelli
03-23 19:27
Nothere:
Berelli
03-23 19:27
Godwinshelley:
So Mike – have you ever compared the operas in the filmed “Phantom of the Opera” films?
03-23 19:27
Nothere:
cologne?
03-23 19:27
Louise:
I think the perfume comment was an anti-gay one
03-23 19:27
Rush:
Yes.
03-23 19:27
Austinchanfan:
sounds like a name chico Marx used in one of their films
03-23 19:27
Godwinshelley:
Those should have faux operas in them too
03-23 19:27
Nothere:
If you can do the silent opera your good,.
03-23 19:28
Rush:
Well, it was definitely an insinuation, Louise.
ACF…I think you are right.
03-23 19:28
Godwinshelley:
Nothere – they used to send along music scores to be played along with silent films – there may have been one for that
03-23 19:28
Rush:
The name did appear in a Marx Brothers film, I believe.
03-23 19:29
Godwinshelley:
A Night at the Opera
03-23 19:29
Rush:
03-23 19:29
Rush:
TWO
Order cancelled!
Efficient Number One Son!
03-23 19:29
Mike in DC:
GS–haven’t looked at “Phantom” operas but my former teacher did an orchestral version of the original silent film music
03-23 19:29
Rush:
Yes, Mike?
03-23 19:30
Nothere:
Get the money first and tell stories later.
03-23 19:30
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Does it count as a TYSM when it’s plainly evident no gratitude is backing the woeful sop?
03-23 19:30
Godwinshelley:
I’m partial to the Claude Rains version – though the Herbert Lom one isn’t bad
03-23 19:30
Mike in DC:
Yes. He traveled quite a bit conducting live orchestras with the films
03-23 19:30
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Nobody sees the great and powerful Oz, not no way, not no how!
03-23 19:30
Nothere:
Get 20 of your fraternitiy brothers to drop everything and get to the theatre.
03-23 19:30
Rush:
As long as CC utters a TYSM…it counts!
03-23 19:31
Charlie’s ANGEL:
NEAT SCREAMS!
03-23 19:31
Rush:
SCREAM!!!!
The audience might have heard that!
03-23 19:31
Matt:
She was in Museum?
03-23 19:31
Nothere:
Madam Barelli dosen’t exactly trust pops.
03-23 19:31
Rush:
Yes!
Mrs. Joe Rocke.
03-23 19:31
Matt:
Yes!
03-23 19:31
Austinchanfan:
nope she knows his has a wondering eye
03-23 19:31
Charlie’s ANGEL:
YAT!!!
03-23 19:32
Nothere:
She fell asleep
03-23 19:32
Rush:
Lee…ingognito!
03-23 19:32
Charlie’s ANGEL:
YAY!!!!
03-23 19:32
rich in Maine:
yes Mrs Rocke, museum over here
03-23 19:32
Rush:
FRANKENSTEIN menrioned.
03-23 19:32
Louise:
Ah, Mrs Rocke more alive this time
03-23 19:32
Nothere:
Thats no wax figure the costume is on. Its on a manaquin.
03-23 19:33
Rush:
Obvious “in-joke” with the audience in on the gag!
03-23 19:33
Charlie’s ANGEL:
FINE series of prop/prat falls!
03-23 19:33
Rush:
Look for Tommy!
THERE!
03-23 19:33
Dona:
This is funny
03-23 19:33
Nothere:
For someone born in the 1940s Lee wears a lot of medieval armor.
03-23 19:33
Louise:
great gag: they’re all Chinese
03-23 19:33
Mike in DC:
the opera begins
03-23 19:33
Rush:
Yes!
03-23 19:33
Charlie’s ANGEL:
I’m not taking opera from some Chinese person! This changes everything!
03-23 19:34
Mike in DC:
this is really the fatal duet but all iinstrumental
03-23 19:34
Charlie’s ANGEL:
BRACELETS at TIFFANY’S
03-23 19:34
Nothere:
Not even peking opera Angel?
03-23 19:34
Charlie’s ANGEL:
The TEND-DOOR Trap!
03-23 19:35
Austinchanfan:
egg foo young chop suey I’m getting hungry
03-23 19:36
Rush:
Please let me know if I miss an “TYSM”!
“Gravelle sings tonight.”
03-23 19:36
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Of course, O Great One!
03-23 19:36
Mike in DC:
so Gravelle didn’t have much of a career…Carnival was his “greatest role?”
03-23 19:36
Nothere:
Do the hoy polo eat poi?
03-23 19:36
Mike in DC:
Not Aida, La Boheme…
03-23 19:36
Rush:
When in the Islands, NT!
03-23 19:36
rich in Maine:
so if he was in such a bad fire, why now scars? Flames, flames, shooting from his head !
03-23 19:37
Nothere:
Reall good balm in the nuthouse.
03-23 19:37
Rush:
Maybe on parts of his body covered by clothing?
03-23 19:37
Austinchanfan:
plastic surgery perhaps
03-23 19:37
rich in Maine:
or maybe Mrs Rocke took him to Dr. Clam
03-23 19:38
Rush:
03-23 19:38
Mike in DC:
he used to look like Bela Lugosi
03-23 19:39
Matt:
TYSM
03-23 19:39
Rush:
THREE
(TYSM, Matt!)
03-23 19:39
rich in Maine:
note the pause on the TYSM this time….TY…….SM
03-23 19:39
Rush:
Yes.
03-23 19:39
Nothere:
Hey we don’t laugh at you. The occasional chuckle maybe, but never laugh.
03-23 19:39
Mike in DC:
the “Marche”
03-23 19:40
tenman:
Found it! !943 Claude Rains Phantom of the Opera! Can’t wait to watch it!
03-23 19:40
Rush:
Did these members of Lee’s fraternity have a chance to rehearse?
03-23 19:40
Nothere:
What rehearse? THey just have to stand there.
03-23 19:41
Mike in DC:
Gershwin knock off music
03-23 19:41
Louise:
I’d go see this opera for real
03-23 19:41
rich in Maine:
Does the all Chinese frat have a name ?
03-23 19:41
Godwinshelley:
Tenman – the 1944 “The Climax” was supposed to be the sequel to that 1943 film – they “changed it” a bit, put Karloff in it
03-23 19:41
Austinchanfan:
the might young lions
03-23 19:41
Rush:
The raucous scene….!
03-23 19:41
Nothere:
Yes and nno it isn’t Rhi Beta Chop Suey
03-23 19:41
Rush:
03-23 19:42
rich in Maine:
nice guess NT
03-23 19:42
Louise:
Looks like Whitley’s cell phone!
03-23 19:42
Austinchanfan:
only CC films can get the two top horror stars in his films’
03-23 19:42
Rush:
Yes, ACF!
03-23 19:43
tenman:
Thanks, god. Will have to check that out, too!
03-23 19:43
Mike in DC:
i wish Levant had written more orchestral music. some of this is pretty good.
03-23 19:43
Godwinshelley:
Don’t forget Lon Chaney Jr too
I agree Mike
03-23 19:43
Nothere:
THe Beach blanket films can top that.
03-23 19:43
rich in Maine:
if only Boris & Bela did a joint project with CC
03-23 19:43
Nothere:
Don’t forget Lon
03-23 19:44
Austinchanfan:
yep the mighty 3
03-23 19:44
Godwinshelley:
Maybe they could have used CC in “Black Friday” – Chan could have solved the crime
03-23 19:44
Rush:
Poor stage manager! His heart might not make it to the finale!
03-23 19:44
Nothere:
Your her husband of course you’ll wait.
03-23 19:44
Austinchanfan:
you’
03-23 19:45
Mike in DC:
and for a change in the movies the conductor is really conducting
03-23 19:45
Louise:
I remember seeing Levant on TV and then the controversies about his vulgar comments (if I remember it correctly)
03-23 19:45
Nothere:
Me. Me I say
03-23 19:45
Rush:
Yes, Mike! great to know.
03-23 19:45
Austinchanfan:
Oscar levant?
03-23 19:45
Rush:
I can’t recall if you noted that last summer. (I was sort of nervous at the time!)
03-23 19:46
Mike in DC:
Levant was quite a “raconteur”
I mentioned in passing, Rush
03-23 19:46
Rush:
Lilli notes the switch!
03-23 19:47
Godwinshelley:
What do you call the guy in the hole just in front of the conductor – and what does he do?
03-23 19:47
Nothere:
Aha the Domino mask can fool police. Not that I plan any crimes.
03-23 19:47
Mike in DC:
he’s the prompter
cues stage movement
03-23 19:47
Godwinshelley:
So he is there in case folks forget their lines?
03-23 19:47
Rush:
Last week, we had a switch in horses, this week, a switch in performers!
03-23 19:47
Godwinshelley:
So he conducts the action while the conductor conducts the music?
03-23 19:48
Mike in DC:
sometimes, GS, but nowadays singers know their lines mostly
03-23 19:48
Nothere:
Correcgt God
03-23 19:48
Rush:
Ah! I was thinking the same question.
03-23 19:48
Austinchanfan:
watching this makes me want to watch the night at the opera again’
03-23 19:48
Mike in DC:
yeah,..he’s there as a reminder
03-23 19:48
Nothere:
Lilly has figured it out.
03-23 19:48
Charlie’s ANGEL:
His costume always reminds me to check my air filters.
03-23 19:48
Rush:
Applause….
03-23 19:48
Mike in DC:
most big houses don’t use them anymore
03-23 19:48
Charlie’s ANGEL:
APPLESAUCE
03-23 19:48
Nothere:
Quick someone hold up the cue cards.
03-23 19:48
Rush:
03-23 19:49
Austinchanfan:
oh yes an old air filter around his neck’
03-23 19:49
Rush:
Nice SOCK!
03-23 19:49
Matt:
03-23 19:49
Rush:
TYSM….Matt….
03-23 19:49
Mike in DC:
So I just noticed that there are TWO of those Mephistopheles costumes in this film.
03-23 19:50
Rush:
Yes!
03-23 19:50
Mike in DC:
Supposedly that was a relic from a previous 20th C fox film they wanted to reuse
03-23 19:50
Godwinshelley:
Wouldnt they have mutiple copies for the leads?
03-23 19:50
Nothere:
Ideally.
03-23 19:50
Rush:
That would make sense, GS.
03-23 19:51
Mike in DC:
They must have done, GS. From Levant’s story, though, I had assumed it was a singular (and expensive) suit
03-23 19:51
Mike in DC:
According to Levant, that costume was the starting point for the opera (and film)
03-23 19:51
Rush:
Yes, Fox had to put out extra to have that second one made.
03-23 19:51
Nothere:
As I said ideally you have multiples of the importants costumes, but the budget is the budget.
03-23 19:52
Rush:
CRASH!
03-23 19:52
Mike in DC:
Maybe they made a cheap copy for Borelli to wear?
03-23 19:52
Matt:
03-23 19:52
rich in Maine:
another body!
03-23 19:53
Rush:
TYSM…Matt….
03-23 19:53
Nothere:
Another? I think I’m behind. Time check please?
03-23 19:54
Rush:
39
39:10
39:20
30:25
03-23 19:54
rich in Maine:
Guess he didn’t watch Poirot…touch nothing!
03-23 19:54
Nothere:
Well if I am its only by seconds. TySM Rush. Please do not add to count.
03-23 19:55
Rush:
I am behind about 5 seconds or so, myself, so I was compensation on the time count…
“Chaise longue”
03-23 19:55
Rush:
FOUR
03-23 19:55
Nothere:
Maybe he did or maybe hye didn’t. You don’t know how the killer held it. Come on Chrlie follow Lees example and give it the old college try.
03-23 19:56
rich in Maine:
Boris changed back into suit
03-23 19:57
Rush:
Yes.
Interesting.
03-23 19:57
Rush:
FIVE
03-23 19:57
Louise:
Your daddy is a famous murderer…
03-23 19:57
Austinchanfan:
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
03-23 19:58
Mike in DC:
the “baritone aria”
03-23 19:58
Rush:
Watch that keyboard, ACF!
03-23 19:59
Nothere:
It was Gravel Right Austi,.
Austin even
03-23 19:59
rich in Maine:
Louise, did Gravelile actually murder anyone ? never understood why he was in sanitorium
03-23 19:59
Austinchanfan:
999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
03-23 19:59
Louise:
did he murder that guard?
03-23 19:59
Austinchanfan:
sorry
03-23 19:59
Matt:
No
03-23 19:59
Rush:
Gravelle didn’t kill anyone at the sanitarium.
03-23 19:59
rich in Maine:
so why was he committed?
03-23 20:00
Godwinshelley:
Rich – i thought he had amnesia and some violent-ish tendencies
03-23 20:00
Nothere:
]THey didn;’t say. Just he got amnesia and went nuts,. What sort they never say. And the -paper said guard attacked not murdered. Make of that what you wiull.
03-23 20:00
Mike in DC:
i always assumed he had amnesiua after “the fire” … ptsd maybe
03-23 20:00
Austinchanfan:
maybe after the fire he went crazy’
03-23 20:00
rich in Maine:
huge headlines about madman given he didn’t actually injure anyone.
03-23 20:00
Rush:
I think he was there mainly because he lost his memory, and thus, could not function in society.
Amnesia.
03-23 20:00
Nothere:
Well that answers did the college boys have time to practice.
03-23 20:01
Rush:
I don’t think they even knew who he was.
03-23 20:01
rich in Maine:
Rush, cant apply that rule today….those folks are happiest
03-23 20:01
Dona:
This music doesn’t fit
03-23 20:01
Rush:
Ah.
03-23 20:01
Nothere:
They didn’t. Remember Rush….Gaurd “Nobody knows not even him. Amnesia case.”
03-23 20:01
Rush:
Yes.
03-23 20:02
Mike in DC:
From here on, Dona, the film music is recycled bits of the opera mixed with usual B movie music from the files
03-23 20:02
Rush:
So, as we see by the teletype, the fire was 13 years ago.
03-23 20:02
tenman:
SOunds like someone is using the microwave!
03-23 20:02
Rush:
We get the glimpse of the new tchnology of the day.
03-23 20:02
Louise:
love this tech
03-23 20:02
Mike in DC:
airdrop
03-23 20:02
Dona:
Thank you Mike
03-23 20:02
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Our mom used to stick DIFFERENT-COLORED candles in necks of straw-wrapped Chianti bottles, and burn them to get varied drippings she said were “romantic.” To which we all said “EEEEEEEEW!!!”
03-23 20:03
Matt:
I always liked that with the Oland films Rush
03-23 20:03
Louise:
I used to use this machine to send photos to newspaper
03-23 20:03
Rush:
A thing that the director, H. Bruce Humberstone was fond of.
03-23 20:03
rich in Maine:
wow, that long distance analog line must be very precise, no jitters at all
03-23 20:03
Rush:
Yes, Louise?
03-23 20:03
Nothere:
Telo tipe? What strange sci fi thing is this?
03-23 20:03
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Like i’m gonna tell some rotating cylinder what i see in Chicago.
03-23 20:03
Louise:
Rush, I worked for the UConn office of sports information. Photographed all the basketball games.
03-23 20:04
Nothere:
Black magic. Charlie really is wizard
03-23 20:04
Charlie’s ANGEL:
CC got it goin’ on.
03-23 20:04
Matt:
VERY cool, Louise!
03-23 20:04
Rush:
This show exemplified the old adage: “The Show Must Go On!”
That must have been fun, Louise!
03-23 20:04
Nothere:
Hey as long as the show stars are killed after their parts are done.
03-23 20:05
rich in Maine:
Best gadget was always that Alexa machine for music
03-23 20:05
Rush:
Touching scene here.
03-23 20:05
Nothere:
Alexa the only spy you put in your own home,
03-23 20:05
Charlie’s ANGEL:
I’m touched.
03-23 20:05
Rush:
NT:
03-23 20:05
Louise:
Oh daddy, that is beautiful music
03-23 20:05
rich in Maine:
not just the only one, sadly
03-23 20:05
Rush:
Indeed!
03-23 20:06
rich in Maine:
Siri is like the “slow” child, she always listens but never really understands you.
03-23 20:07
Matt:
Chan vs Karloff
03-23 20:07
Rush:
Yes!
03-23 20:08
Nothere:
Fear the eyebrows of Karloff.
03-23 20:08
Rush:
She’s not the only one afraid of him!
03-23 20:08
Dona:
Yes
03-23 20:10
Rush:
At this point they think Gravelle is a killer.
03-23 20:10
Nothere:
Hey the warbrode lady wasn’t scared. She just wanted an excuse to grab a cop. HUBBA HUBBA
03-23 20:11
Rush:
These actors are obviously NOT union!
03-23 20:11
Nothere:
Gravelle sings twice tonight.
03-23 20:11
Rush:
This is one of the most elaborate means that CC has used to reveal a killer!
03-23 20:11
Nothere:
Just because hes a homicidal maniac dosen’t mean he can kill the whole opers. 10 20 tops.
03-23 20:12
Rush:
03-23 20:12
rich in Maine:
they can raise lights once he is on stage
03-23 20:13
Godwinshelley:
Plus I imagine the opera folks would have to be paid – did that come out of city budget?
03-23 20:13
Nothere:
Notice how no one pays attention to where that shiffty Pops went.
03-23 20:13
Rush:
Possible question: Will they hire Gravelle to finish the run of this opera?
03-23 20:13
Austinchanfan:
i would
03-23 20:14
rich in Maine:
sorry, how do I display those overtext here ?
03-23 20:14
Nothere:
Depends on how long he takes to recover from sorry no spoliersaa, but he dosen’t make it through the movie unscaved.
03-23 20:14
Rush:
Yes, NT.
03-23 20:15
Rush:
An attempted put-down.
03-23 20:17
Nothere:
Aha arrest prop master.
03-23 20:18
Rush:
SIX
03-23 20:18
rich in Maine:
slow night Rush
03-23 20:18
Rush:
Yes! We had 14 last week!
03-23 20:18
Mike in DC:
over budget on orchestra overtime pay. under budget in tysm’s
03-23 20:19
rich in Maine:
yes Mike
03-23 20:19
Nothere:
Hey as long as we avoid 3
03-23 20:19
rich in Maine:
Biggers estate gets paid for each one
03-23 20:19
Rush:
03-23 20:19
Mike in DC:
Thank You So Much(tm)
03-23 20:19
rich in Maine:
03-23 20:20
Nothere:
AS long as we keep the fat lady off the stage the opera can’t end.
03-23 20:20
Mike in DC:
They got the Good Humor man to take care of Gravelle?
03-23 20:20
Rush:
03-23 20:20
rich in Maine:
Magic bullet, enters brain, cures amnesia, does zero damage
03-23 20:21
Mike in DC:
The power of music, Rich
03-23 20:21
Rush:
Just a lucky glance off the skull.
03-23 20:21
rich in Maine:
Same bullet used 11/22/63 Mike
03-23 20:21
Rush:
SEVEN
03-23 20:21
Nothere:
Hey better than hospital ice cream. Two bullets for lobotmy Rich
03-23 20:22
Matt:
Some escort!
03-23 20:22
Rush:
YES!
03-23 20:22
rich in Maine:
Hold that boat !
03-23 20:22
Rush:
A race to the docks!
03-23 20:22
Godwinshelley:
case now closed
03-23 20:22
Rush:
“Case now closed.”
THE END
03-23 20:22
Nothere:
I still say Pops disappearance suspicious.
03-23 20:22
Matt:
<yee-haw>
03-23 20:22
Godwinshelley:
Keye got 3rd billing
03-23 20:22
Rush:
(Applause…)
03-23 20:22
Dona:
In his armor
03-23 20:22
Louise:
Always a good one
03-23 20:22
Nothere:
<KIDS YEAH>
03-23 20:23
tenman:
Nytol!
03-23 20:23
Mike in DC:
<kids-yeah>
03-23 20:23
Rush:
Closing credits….
03-23 20:23
Mike in DC:
always good to see Opera
03-23 20:23
Dona:
WaHooooooo!!!! Another good one! Thank you Rush!
03-23 20:23
Matt:
Classic Chan
03-23 20:23
Rush:
THANK YOU ALL….for another GREAT evening!
03-23 20:23
Nothere:
Oh and rather later buyt better than never.
03-23 20:23
Rush:
Next week….
03-23 20:23
Nothere:
<RATATATATAT>
03-23 20:23
Mike in DC:
Welcome back, Dona. Hope to see you again!
03-23 20:23
Dona:
I’m so happy to be here.
03-23 20:23
Rush:
“Charlie Chan at the Olympics.”
03-23 20:23
Louise:
Nite all, see you again soon
03-23 20:23
Matt:
We’re going for the GOLD
03-23 20:23
Nothere:
We are happy you are here Dona. Not to mention Mike
03-23 20:24
Rush:
It was GREAT to have you back with us, Dona!
03-23 20:24
Nothere:
Night Louise.
03-23 20:24
rich in Maine:
thanks Rush…..have a great week all
03-23 20:24
Mike in DC:
Have a wonderful week everyone. Have to run.
03-23 20:24
Godwinshelley:
Thank you for your great talk, Mike
03-23 20:24
Matt:
Good night everyone and have a great week ahead
03-23 20:24
Dona:
Nest week i will be out of town. I hope to be here the following week
03-23 20:24
Rush:
I hope that you will be able to return regularly!
03-23 20:24
Nothere:
Bye Mike Matt
03-23 20:24
Mike in DC:
ciao
03-23 20:24
Rush:
Very good, Dona!
03-23 20:24
Austinchanfan:
nice meeting you Dona’
03-23 20:24
Dona:
That is my plan Rush.
03-23 20:24
Godwinshelley:
Stay safe everyone – night
03-23 20:24
Rush:
Have a wonderful week, everyone!
Take care….
03-23 20:24
Austinchanfan:
night Shelley mike
03-23 20:25
Dona:
Nice meeting you too Austinchanfan
03-23 20:25
Rush:
Great weather on the way as Spring blossoms around us!
03-23 20:25
Nothere:
Well if everone is leaving the fat lady will now sing.
03-23 20:25
Rush:
yes, NT!
03-23 20:25
hounder:
nite all. thanks
03-23 20:25
Rush:
Be happy and safe, everyone!
03-23 20:26
Austinchanfan:
charlie get a police escort to the ship
03-23 20:26
Dona:
How do i get a password Rush
I came in as a guest
03-23 20:26
Rush:
See you here next week, as we take something od a EPIC journey to the Olympics!
03-23 20:26
Nothere:
Night Hound. WEll I guess I won’t leave last. Night all.
03-23 20:26
Rush:
Good night!
03-23 20:26
Austinchanfan:
night nothere
03-23 20:27
Rush:
Thank you, again….ACF, Dona, Hounder, and NT!
03-23 20:27
Austinchanfan:
ty Rush
03-23 20:27
Rush:
03-23 20:27
Austinchanfan:
never knew you needed a password to enter’
03-23 20:27
Rush:
Have a good week!
03-23 20:27
Austinchanfan:
I just enter threw the doors
03-23 20:27
Rush:
I don’t think you need one,.
Just use the “doors”
Yes.
Well…
03-23 20:28
Austinchanfan:
Rush root for Iowa teams this week in the tornament
03-23 20:28
Rush:
Good night!
Take care!
03-23 20:28
Austinchanfan:
night and see you at the olympics’
03-23 20:30
Charlie’s ANGEL:
😆😆
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