The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for May 18, 2026
Feature: Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
Chat Number: 1,361
Extra:
PARIS 1938
Note:
“TYSM” count from Charlie Chan in City in Darkness: 4 (Total from all series films thus far: 165)
Participants:
Charlie’s ANGEL
hounder
Louise
Nothere
Paul Minturn
Rush
tenman
05-18 18:36
Rush:
05-18 19:03
Rush:
Good evening, NT!
How are you tonight?
05-18 19:03
Nothere:
Great. I miss the worlds fair only to be in a city I can’t see anything.
05-18 19:03
Rush:
05-18 19:03
Nothere:
And hello to you Rush
05-18 19:03
Rush:
Thank you…!
05-18 19:04
Nothere:
Hey Hound
05-18 19:04
hounder:
hi all.
05-18 19:04
Rush:
Matt’s not here tonight, so we will not have the gong …
Hello, Hounder!
05-18 19:04
Nothere:
Says you
05-18 19:04
Rush:
Good evening to you!
05-18 19:04
Nothere:
<GONG!<>
05-18 19:05
Rush:
That’ll work!
10 minutes to go…
05-18 19:05
hounder:
05-18 19:06
Rush:
I had a fairly long extra for tonight, but, I have a very short one that give a glimpse of Paris in 1938.
(In its place)
Only 55 seconds.
05-18 19:06
Nothere:
Didn’t want to show us the can can girls eh?
05-18 19:07
Rush:
We can wait a little bit…
Well…it was about the Maginot Line…not a Can-Can Line!
05-18 19:07
Nothere:
Sure I’ll buy that line.
05-18 19:07
Rush:
7 minutes…
05-18 19:08
hounder:
i’m along for tyhe ride.
05-18 19:09
Rush:
We will have people arriving soon, just before curtain time!
No video available, Hounder?
05-18 19:09
Nothere:
Hey when I pay for an exclusoive club I expect exclusoicty.
05-18 19:10
Rush:
AH!
Well…let’s see the extra, shall we…?
Short count….
05-18 19:10
Nothere:
And when I’mm there expect either bad spellin or typos
05-18 19:10
Rush:
20 seconds…
15….
10….
5….
GO!!!
05-18 19:11
Nothere:
Can’t say I know a Gabriel peri
05-18 19:11
Rush:
There we have it!
3 1/2 minutes….
05-18 19:11
Nothere:
But can we cure it?
05-18 19:12
Rush:
Good question!
3 minutes…
05-18 19:12
Nothere:
<GENTELMEN START YOUR ENGINES>
05-18 19:12
Rush:
Yes….and ladies…
05-18 19:12
Nothere:
Hey Paul
05-18 19:12
Rush:
Paul!
Welcome!
05-18 19:12
Paul Minturn:
good evening all
05-18 19:13
Rush:
Four odf us so far…
Ready, Paul?
05-18 19:13
Paul Minturn:
yup
05-18 19:13
Nothere:
So we playing cards or golf?
05-18 19:13
Rush:
05-18 19:13
Nothere:
Herey Ten
05-18 19:13
tenman:
Hola todos!
05-18 19:13
Rush:
90 seconds…
75 seconds…
05-18 19:13
Nothere:
Hey Louise
05-18 19:13
Louise:
Hi Chan Clan
05-18 19:14
Rush:
60 seconds…
Welcome all….!
50 seconds…
40 seconds…
30….
05-18 19:15
Rush:
25…
20…
15…
10…
5…
GO!!!
05-18 19:15
Nothere:
<GONG!>
05-18 19:15
Rush:
Title….
Music…
Credits…
TYSM, NT….
05-18 19:16
Rush:
Dramatic music.
The “newsreel” intro….
05-18 19:16
Louise:
Amazing real history here
05-18 19:16
Rush:
YES!
05-18 19:17
Rush:
Maginot Line.
05-18 19:17
Nothere:
Pay no attention to me. I’m not setting up the background. I really am a part of the mopvie.
05-18 19:17
Rush:
AH!
05-18 19:18
Nothere:
The Medusa? Must be Greek registry.
05-18 19:18
Rush:
Ominous name as well!
05-18 19:19
Rush:
We saw the captain in another Chan movie….
05-18 19:20
Rush:
“Just one little red light….”
05-18 19:21
Nothere:
Engaged? When is the wedding?
05-18 19:22
Rush:
“The Jumping Rabbit”
05-18 19:23
Rush:
Saved by the planes!
05-18 19:24
Nothere:
Uhm it came that waY?
05-18 19:25
Nothere:
How many pants does a suit come with?
05-18 19:25
Rush:
I know that they used to have two.
05-18 19:27
Nothere:
Trouble? War could break out at any momkent, how could there be trouble.
05-18 19:27
Rush:
It takes acting skill aplenty to play a buffoonish character in one film, and a NYC cop in another!
05-18 19:28
Rush:
Harold Huber was great, IMHO.
Yes, NT!
FIRE!
05-18 19:30
Rush:
Proof that the hazards of cigarette smoking were known in 1939.
05-18 19:31
Nothere:
Go away or I’ll throw my hat at you.
05-18 19:32
Rush:
Baptiste!
05-18 19:32
Rush:
I think that Huber didn’t use a stunt double for that fall!
05-18 19:33
Nothere:
Well thats showing him.
05-18 19:33
Rush:
Indeed!
05-18 19:34
Rush:
He would also need to use fake passport stamps to make it look real.
05-18 19:35
Rush:
Yes..there he is….
Lon Chaney Jr.
05-18 19:35
Louise:
Lon looking handsome
05-18 19:35
Rush:
Yes.
05-18 19:36
Rush:
No “TYSM” yet…
05-18 19:36
Rush:
M. Petroff shows he’s not a good person, to say the least!
05-18 19:37
Rush:
Slap him!
05-18 19:38
Louise:
I imagine there were real conversations like that
05-18 19:38
Rush:
Probably.
05-18 19:39
Rush:
Cootie powder.
The thieves arrive…
05-18 19:39
Nothere:
Lola hasn’t had cooties for years.
05-18 19:40
Rush:
Ngaang…
05-18 19:41
tenman:
When I watch movies about this time, I just can’t imagine how awful it must have been for those in cities like this trapped, deciding what to do or trying to flee, most often with next to nothing because of the haste
05-18 19:41
Nothere:
Clear all wires. Stop the presses. Me first then the women and children.
05-18 19:42
Louise:
My thoughts, too, tenman.
05-18 19:42
Rush:
Yes, Tenman! It was a very real dilemma for too many…and, of course, happens to this day, sadly….
05-18 19:43
Nothere:
<TINCAN>
05-18 19:43
Rush:
TYSM..NT…
05-18 19:45
Nothere:
Hey if my pockets are full of money and jewels I can take some denouncing.
05-18 19:45
Rush:
Verdun.
05-18 19:47
Louise:
Always end in the cellar
05-18 19:47
Rush:
Yes.
05-18 19:48
Rush:
No fingerprints…
05-18 19:49
Rush:
The first one tonigh!
05-18 19:49
Louise:
05-18 19:50
Rush:
“Patience big sister to wisdom.”
05-18 19:53
Nothere:
No it was the other cellar
05-18 19:53
Rush:
Marcel took charge there!
05-18 19:53
Nothere:
Lola the lloout
lookout even
05-18 19:53
Charlie’s ANGEL:
MISREAD THE CLOCK!
HELLO DETECTIVES!!
05-18 19:53
Rush:
Yes.
05-18 19:54
Charlie’s ANGEL:
(40:30)?
05-18 19:55
Rush:
40:10
40:15
40:20
05-18 19:55
Nothere:
Nah shed defnend the honor of her legs if she was in the house?
05-18 19:56
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Observe . . .
05-18 19:56
Rush:
By the way…welcome, Angel!
05-18 19:56
Nothere:
O.k. everbody put your little book on the table.
05-18 19:56
Charlie’s ANGEL:
.
HER legs will definitely be defended!
05-18 19:56
Nothere:
Hey Angel
05-18 19:57
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Hi Notty!!
Did you hear SHOTS?
05-18 19:58
Nothere:
<RATATATATAT>
Nope no shots here
05-18 19:58
Charlie’s ANGEL:
How about in Paris?
05-18 19:59
Nothere:
Yes. There was from a Luger to b e precise.
05-18 20:00
Rush:
Yes, NT!
05-18 20:00
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Monsieur Sugar Daddééééé!
05-18 20:01
Rush:
CC tricked him!
05-18 20:01
Charlie’s ANGEL:
“How much you GOT?”
05-18 20:01
Nothere:
I’m a ditch digger. There will be a river when I’m done.
05-18 20:01
Charlie’s ANGEL:
05-18 20:02
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Your passport please.
05-18 20:02
Louise:
How many contradictory stories
05-18 20:02
Rush:
Too many!
05-18 20:03
Charlie’s ANGEL:
First there is a river
then there is no river
then there is.
05-18 20:03
Rush:
05-18 20:04
Nothere:
The river might be in deninal
05-18 20:05
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Have a BLEU MOSS!
05-18 20:05
Rush:
TWO…
05-18 20:06
Nothere:
Chan will soon lock down his theory.
05-18 20:06
Rush:
NT:
05-18 20:06
Louise:
Maybe he will find the key to the mystery
05-18 20:06
Rush:
05-18 20:06
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Certainment!!!
05-18 20:07
Charlie’s ANGEL:
To the cashbox; i mean, the CASBAH!
TYSM
05-18 20:07
Nothere:
Lon your nott playing Lenny in this film
05-18 20:08
Rush:
Nope.
05-18 20:08
Rush:
What’d she say…!!!??
05-18 20:09
Louise:
???
05-18 20:09
Rush:
Fastest lines I ever herd!
05-18 20:09
Charlie’s ANGEL:
NITRIC acid! Our FAVORITE!!
05-18 20:10
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Just surrender now.
05-18 20:10
Rush:
The captain here was in “Shanghai.”
05-18 20:11
Nothere:
Steal a bike and head into the dark allwys
05-18 20:13
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Imagine a CARGO of ESCARGOT!
05-18 20:14
Rush:
I am not sure I want to, Angel!
05-18 20:16
Rush:
“Truth is only path out of tangled web.”
05-18 20:18
Rush:
Tabble mat size bills!
05-18 20:19
Rush:
A “lights out” that was not used as an escape device!
05-18 20:19
Nothere:
A cargo of caviar?
05-18 20:19
Rush:
Sounds fishy to me…
05-18 20:20
Rush:
THREE…
05-18 20:21
Rush:
Poor Marcel…
05-18 20:22
Nothere:
<RATATATATAT>
<TINCAN>
05-18 20:23
Rush:
TYSM…NT…
The great chase ensues…
05-18 20:23
Nothere:
My apologies. Hospital means tincan premature. Confusious would be ashamed.
05-18 20:24
Rush:
AH! Got me on that one, too!
05-18 20:24
Louise:
speed kills
05-18 20:24
Rush:
More on the way, though, NT…
05-18 20:24
Nothere:
I stand ready
05-18 20:25
Nothere:
<TIN CAN TINCAN TINCAN >
05-18 20:25
Rush:
TYSM times two…NT..
FOUR…
05-18 20:26
Louise:
oops
05-18 20:27
Nothere:
Oh no you can’t have told us this hours ago. You had to make us run around Paris all night.
05-18 20:27
Rush:
05-18 20:28
Louise:
so true nothere
05-18 20:28
Rush:
Prophetic words by Chan…
05-18 20:28
tenman:
yes
05-18 20:28
Rush:
Indeed…
THE END
(Applause…)
05-18 20:29
tenman:
Nytol!
05-18 20:29
Nothere:
<KIDS YEAH>
05-18 20:29
hounder:
thanks all. see you next week.
05-18 20:29
Rush:
As we see the closing credits….
Next week….
The warm climes of Panama…
“Charlie Chan in Panama”
05-18 20:29
Louise:
so a premature celebration of no war
05-18 20:29
Rush:
Yes.
05-18 20:29
Nothere:
But will there be a Panama Hat?
05-18 20:29
Rush:
“Peace for our time….”
05-18 20:30
Louise:
nite all, till we parlez again
05-18 20:30
Rush:
05-18 20:30
Nothere:
Adios
05-18 20:30
Rush:
yES, lOUISE…
ty all sm!
Caps loke at the last minute…
05-18 20:31
Rush:
Have a wonderful week, everyone!
See you here next week…perhaps a few more will join us then!
05-18 20:31
Rush:
Take care…have a good night…
Good night, Hounder and Paul…
05-18 20:32
Paul Minturn:
night
05-18 20:34
Charlie’s ANGEL:
NEVILLE!
You’ll go DOWN in history!
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