The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for May 23, 2022
Feature:
Charlie Chan in Panama
Extra:
How Panama Canal Works Animation; US Guards Panama Canal (1939)
Participants:
Dave
Dona
Foxama & Angelzone
Godwinshelley2
Hawaii_Steve
hounder
Louise
Matt1
mda19083
Mike n Rachel in DC
Nothere
Phil & Mrs. Phil
Rich Maine
Rush
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Rush:
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Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: Good evening, Matt!
Rush: How’s life in the most free state?
Matt1: Hope you are well
Rush: Doing well, thank you, for the most part!
Matt1: Hot & humid, but loving it….yourself?
Rush: School ends this week.
Matt1: Always a nice time of year!
Rush: Beautiful day yeasterday!
Rush: Perfect weather for the most part.
Matt1: Any summer plans?
Rush: Well, Marie and the daughters are going off to san Diego in a little over a week, and then i will be going off to Medjugorje on pilgrimage.
Rush: Ten days.
Rush: (Stay)
Matt1: Big hiking, no?
Rush: So, att eh end of June, i will need some help here!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Some hiking there.
Matt1: I should be around to help
Dona has joined this room
Rush: Much appreciated!
Dona: Hello Rush and Matt
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Rush: I will at least try to drop by to say hello, BUT it will be around 3 in the morning there!
Rush: hello, Dona!
Rush: WELCOME!
Rush: You got off work early again?
Dona: No, Have been in New Mexico since last Wednesday. I just go back this morning.
Dona: It was a great trip, i have never been there before.
Rush: Matt, I don’t see you listed in the box on the right!
Matt1: I’m under you!
Dona: I can see him Rush
Matt1: Stelth mode?
Rush: Must be my computer.
Rush: It reads “2 online”.
Rush: Oh, well!
Dona: Mine says “3”
Rush: As long as we are all here!
Dona: weird Rush
Dona: logout then log back in
Rush: Hawaii Steve emailed me a couple of Panama Canal “extras.”
Matt1: Great!
Dona: Nice!
Rush: The first one is about 2 minutes long, and shows how the canal works.
Rush: The next is from 1939, and shows the military protecting the Canal!
Hawaii_Steve has joined this room
Matt1: I’ve done that cruise. VERY interesting
Rush: 5 minutes in length.
Matt1: Alohaaaaa, Steve!
Rush: AH!
Hawaii_Steve: Hawaii_Steve did what? The nerve !!!
Rush: Aloha to you, steve!
Matt1: Shhhh, Steve’s here
Rush: I was just mentioning the extras you sent us to see!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha from the land of Chan.
Rush: Ahhhh….
Dona: Hello Steve
Hawaii_Steve: Matt, I’m watching you. Behave.
Hawaii_Steve: Hello everybody.
Rush: Swaying palms…trade winds,….warm sand on the beach….
Hawaii_Steve: Today is exactly what you described Rush.
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Paradise
Rush: Typical day in PARADISE!
Rush: Since the extras total about 7 minutes, we can share them a little later as a few more arrive!
Matt1: Sounds good
Mike n Rachel in DC has joined this room
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, short subjects, indeed.
Matt1: Hello M & D!
Rush: The 1939 short is perfect!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good evening all
Hawaii_Steve: Author Ken Hanke says kind words about tonight’s film.
Rush: it’s a really nice intro to the situation where our movie takes off!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Mike n Rachel.
Rush: I would agree with him!
Dona: Hi MnR
Rush: Mike/Rachel!
Rush: WELCOME!
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, Rush.
Hawaii_Steve: It appears that the last two Fox Chans are a prelude to America’s involvement in WW2.
Rush: This is also another of those films where we learn a few facts…in this case, about the Canal.
Rush: Yes, Steve.
Rush: Things were certainly heating up.
Rush: War in Europe was spreading, Japan rumbling in the Pacific.
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, Rush. But today, we are so far removed from the events of that time, we have the selected to bring us up to date. So to speak.
Mike n Rachel in DC: This was about the time my father was drafted into the Army.
Rush: True.
Rush: Yes, Mike?
Mike n Rachel in DC: He finished his basic training on Dec. 7, 1941
Hawaii_Steve: This film is also the last Chan to be directed by Norman Foster. After this Chan, he went to work for Orson Welles.
Rush: My dad had joined the FBI in 1940, and that was were he was during the war.
Mike n Rachel in DC: He was in California…they had their “graduation” and immediately found out that Pearl Harbor was being bombed.
Rush: Good info, Steve.
Matt1: Wow
Rush: WOW!
Hawaii_Steve: Both my dad and grandfather served in the US Navy during the war, but at different locations.
Dona: So interesting. Thank you all of sharing.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes. Very few of his “classmates” survived until 1945.
Rush: My uncle was in the Army in San Francisco, and was immediately sent ober to Ft. Derussy in Honolulu.
Hawaii_Steve: Mike, where was your father’s basic training? Location please?
Mike n Rachel in DC: La Jolla, CA
Rush: There was still smoke in Pearl harbor as his ship arrived.
Dona: WOW
Rush: AH!
Rush: I used to work in La Jolla!
Mike n Rachel in DC: We have a connection. 🙂
Rush: Beautiful area.
Hawaii_Steve: From a historical p.o.v., there so many interesting tidbits about the attack at Pearl Harbor.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Yes, Steve.
Mike n Rachel in DC: He always talked about how beautiful it was and what great weather there was. (We lived in Michigan, so the nostalgia was strong!)
Hawaii_Steve: Did you know that the Arizona burned for several days. It just wasn’t on Dec. 7th.
Rush: yes, Mike! Understood!
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Dona: Hello Hounder
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
hounder: hi everyone.
Rush: You mean it burned for days AFTER the attack, of course!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hi hounder!
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, when your uncle arrived at Pearl, yes, there was still smoking (and fire) in the harbor.
Rush: But, yes, my uncle mentioned that to me once.
Rush: Yes.
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, indeed. It did. According to local historians here on Oahu.
Rush: Marie’s grandfather was in the Navy and was in San Diego with his family when the attack happened. marie’s grandmother shiowed us where everyone oas in her kitchen when the news hit the radio,
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Hounder.
Rush: WELCOME, Hounder!!!
Rush: How are you tonight?
hounder: pretty good. tired tonight so may not make the whole movie. but laptop’s fixed.
Matt1: Good news Hounder!
Rush: Happy about the laptop, and I hope that you will be able to remain.
Hawaii_Steve: Because of media technology (i.e. radio, telegram, telephone), news moved slower than it does today.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Don’t forget Jimmy’s carrier pigeons, Steve. 😉
hounder: My grandmother’s birthday was 12/7. I always thought it would be a hard day to have a birthday because it was always a rememberance day for pearl harbor
Rush: our first extra runs about 2 minutes. It shows how the Panama canal works, through moving diagrams. interesting, and TYSM, to Steve! There could ve a commercial att he start that you can click out of after 5 seconds…
Hawaii_Steve: People on the neighbor islands did not know about the attack of Dec 7th for a couple of days. The military shut down the telephone calls from civians.
Rush: Here is the address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwvCj9CMuw
Rush: Please ready it and I will give a short countdown!
Matt1: Cued, after commercial
Hawaii_Steve: Ready.
Rush: Please let me know when you are ready!
Rush: Okay…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Listos en DC
Rush: Nice…
Rush: Hounder?
Hawaii_Steve: Cued to first image, after commercial.
hounder: brb dog walk
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hm. No commercial here…
Rush: Okay, Hounder…see you after the walk! 🙂
Rush: So…
Dona: No commercial here either
hounder: he changed his mind. lol
Rush: 20 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: woof
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Hawaii_Steve: First Image: Panama Canal – How it works.
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: Princess!
Rush: Nice “Kraftwerk” music!
Mike n Rachel in DC: ground floor, please
Dave has joined this room
Matt1: The line can get long waiting to go through
Matt1: Hello Dave!
hounder: hi dave
Rush: Hi, Dave!
Rush: LCOME!
Dona: Hi
Dave: belated greetings
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey Dave
Dona: Hi Dave
Mike n Rachel in DC: I’m feeling very 70s at the moment…
Dave: how is everyone?
Rush: We are just wrapping our first extra on how the Panama Canal works!
Dave: Digging it…
Matt1: Nice clip
Mike n Rachel in DC: Very nice. Zippy music too.
Dave: Too soon?
Hawaii_Steve: Mike, its the music.
Rush: It is amazing to me how something over a century old is still a wonder!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Dave.
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, Rush.
Dave: aloha, steve!
Dave: agreed, Rush
Hawaii_Steve: Thank you, Matt.
Rush: Here is the second extra…
Rush: It runs about 5 minutes.
Rush: “US Guards the Panama Canal”
Rush: From 1939.
Rush: Thank you again, Steve!
Rush: It is a great intro historically to our movie tonight!
Hawaii_Steve: My pleasure. Glad to share with honorable family.
Rush: Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWD-iZ0i2AY
Dave: Look out for the guy with the camera!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: Many thanks, Steve.
Foxxama & Angelzone has joined this room
hounder: hi louise
Louise: Greetings to my Chan family!
hounder: hi f n a
Foxxama & Angelzone: Hello Chanians!!
Matt1: Hello F & A!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Louise.
Dave: hello f/a and louise
Louise: Would not miss a trip to Panama.
Rush: Fox and Angel…and LOUISE!
Rush: WELCOME!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Greetings Louise and …er…Foxxama & Angel
Foxxama & Angelzone: Foxx gets top billing first time tonight! I am thinking of retiring!!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Mr. Foxx. Are you Redd tonight?
Dona: Hi Louise
Rush: I hope that you are happy and well this evening, both…or all three…of you!
Dona: Fox and Angel
Foxxama & Angelzone: Nice to see so many of our favorite friends here already!
Rush: Again, here’s the link to the second extra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWD-iZ0i2AY
Louise: Every year I repeat the story that I was in the pilot’s control room while moving a ship through the canal.
Matt1: Ready here
Rush: When ready, please let me know.
Hawaii_Steve: Cued to fist image of newsreel. Ready.
Rush: Then I will give another short countdown!
hounder: neat experience louise
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sounds exciting, Louise
Foxxama & Angelzone: Rush, we never know how many we are. We contain multitudes, say Walt Whitman and the FDA. All well with all here?
Rush: NICE, Louise!!!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Yes, Angel.
Dave: belated greetings to dona, matt, m/r, hounder….anyone else…
Hawaii_Steve: Louise, very cool for you. Never heard that story before.
Rush: The trouble lies in keeping them under control!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Cheers to you, Dave. Where are you?
Rush: Ready everyone?
Dona: Ready Rush
Mike n Rachel in DC: SÃ
Hawaii_Steve: Si.
Matt1: Dooooooo it
Dave: I am currently in MD, now
Rush: Let’s start at…30 seconds…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Dave: Sometimes in SC…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Louise: I was studying the Zonians, the Americans who settled in the Canal Zone and ran the canal for generations.
hounder: now they want out. sigh
Foxxama & Angelzone: John McCain turned out to be a Zonian, did he not/
Dave: sounds interesting, louise…
Foxxama & Angelzone: FRED ALLEN, Film Editor?? A thin spell for him?
Rush: Had a glitch, courtesy of Red Robin!
Dave: Zonian…
Rush: Poor donkey!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *zoom*
Dave: Rush, how did Red Robin play into this?
Hawaii_Steve: Very cool.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Short and Sweet
Foxxama & Angelzone: Dave, you said Maryland? I was just barreling thru your fair state Saturday! I am moving from Boston to NC.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We feel much safer now…
hounder: back.
Foxxama & Angelzone: Imagine those legs.
Dave: We are close to DC. Is that Timonium?
Rush: Yes! pretty good, yes?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Congratulations, F/A. Where in NC? Used to reside in Durham…
Foxxama & Angelzone: I’m warning my pupils. Have sunglasses right here.
Hawaii_Steve: I wonder if there is any trace of the gun foundation still left today?
Rush: I would imagine so, Steve.
Rush: On Point Loma overlooking san Diego Bay and the coast, there are still a LOT of remains from that time.
Rush: well…
Rush: Time to ready our copies of “Charlie Chan in Panama”!
Rich Maine has joined this room
Rich Maine: Good evening everyone!
Matt1: Cued to Opening Title
hounder: i missed where in nc angel?
hounder: hi rich
Louise: cued here
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ready in DC, Rush
Matt1: Hello Rich!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello Rich!
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Rush: Our movie is on the “flip side” of the Fox disc.
Dona: Hi Rich
Matt1: Hello GS!
Mike n Rachel in DC: …and hellloooo GS
Hawaii_Steve: At the time that the Chan film (1940) was made the USA owned the Panama Canal.
Rush: GS!
Dona: Reday here Rush
Foxxama & Angelzone: Hey, MnR! Flattered anyone’s interested! I am in northeast NC, little town called Williamston in Martin County, which is “Inner Banks”. Got a beautiful house at a good price & while i enjoyed many years in Boston it’s going bad fast. I love NC! Have been to Raleigh & some places around, but not Durham yet.
Rush: WELCOME!
Dona: Hello GS
Godwinshelley2: Hello
Rich Maine: Hey hounder GS, Matt, Rush
Godwinshelley2: So Dave – you are close to DC?
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha GodwinShelly.
Rush: And, that’s no “Bull,” Angel!
Godwinshelley2: Aloha HS
hounder: nice. when i’m not in fl i live at the other end on the state
Dave: just got a blast of thirty messages
hounder: hi gs
Foxxama & Angelzone: Hi Rich and GS!! Fasten your seat belts! This plane looks dumpy!
Dave: gs- yes
Godwinshelley2: I’m in Southern DE
Mike n Rachel in DC: You should LOVE it, Angel. It will definitely be a different pace of life.
Rush: Popular, Dave!
hounder: mom’s hungry.
Foxxama & Angelzone: GS, i slipped down I-95 YOUR way saturday, too!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes, between Hounder and Angel NC has been Chan-ed from east to west.
Hawaii_Steve: REgarding the last short, did you guys see the mule jump when they fired the big gun?
Rush: FIVE minutes to go…
Hawaii_Steve: Ready and cued.
Rush: Paused and ready!
Rush: 🙂
Dona: I missed that Steve i’ll have to go back and find it.
Godwinshelley2: F&A – Yes I-95 is the BIG route for so many places on the coast
Foxxama & Angelzone: How do fez-guys keep them on—the guy here has his at about a 30-degree off back of head. Glue? Palm oil?
Rush: Yes, to the mule, Steve!
Rush: I would have jumped, too!
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, can you post the two short subjects on the message board? I can list the title, but not the web addresses.
Rush: And, I noted that the people manning the artillery were not wearing ear protection!
Dave: don’t want to do it, without the fez on
Rush: THREE minutes…
Rush: Everyone ready ?
Hawaii_Steve: When I worked on the Battleship Missouri, one day they turned one of the medium-size guns. Impressive.
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes…
Rush: Yes, Steve?
Dona: Ready here Rush
Rush: WOW!
Rush: Very good, Dona..
hounder: i’ll need a time check when i get back. mom’s rady for bed
Rush: TWO MINUTES…
Rush: Okay, Hounder…
Rush: 90 seconds…
Hawaii_Steve: yes, indeed. I have been told that when they fired the big guns, one could hear the sound down below. The ship did not rock or jump out of the water.
Rush: 75 seconds…
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: WOW, again, Steve!
Hawaii_Steve: Hounder, we got you.
Rush: 50…
Dave: interesting, steve
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Mike n Rachel in DC: *covers ears*
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Hawaii_Steve: Duck and cover.
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Rush: Title….
Rush: Music….
Hawaii_Steve: Matt, you kill me.
Rush: Credits….
Mike n Rachel in DC: Nice Latin Chan music
Rush: Yes!
Phil & Mrs. Phil has joined this room
Rich Maine: Samba everyone
Rush: MCMXL
Dave: Any favorite guest star this week?
Hawaii_Steve: I pull up to YouTube with the clapboard in the bottom right.
Rich Maine: Hey Phil’s
Rush: Phil and Mrs. Phil….WELCOME!!!
Phil & Mrs. Phil: ALOOOOOHA! to all my Chan friends!
Rush: GREAT to see you!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: This film has a lot of good acting in it
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello Phil & Mrs.
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Good to see you too RUsh. And everyone else too!
Rush: (“japanese” tones….)
Hawaii_Steve: Spies. Spies every where.
Dave: hello, phil and mas
Foxxama & Angelzone: The Panamanian authorities are missing a fine fat swag-op, every day they don’t get their big bauble The Canal into the Celebrity Endorsement game: Imagine them offering NAMING RIGHTS for the Canal’s famed LOCKS, to the famed names of security devices. A million a year to have “yours” designated: The Yale Lock…the Master Lock…Schlage Lock, and so on? You BETCHA they’d move! Two million for whatever could be called “premium”? Eastmost/westmost, biggest?
Rush: Yes, Steve.
Mike n Rachel in DC: A few photos for my cousin in Berlin
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Hi Dave; Hi M&R
Foxxama & Angelzone: WHACK!!
Dave: Thecpool man!
Dave: poor man!
Foxxama & Angelzone: MnR: Make sure you clear those photos with the army.
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Plane was launched from the Indianapolis – the ship that carried the atom bomb to Tinian
Rush: How are you and Mrs. Phil tonight?
Dave: Well, he might be the pool man, too
Mike n Rachel in DC: the Indianapolis came to a very grim end, sadly
Rush: San Pedro….Long Beach Harbor here?
Phil & Mrs. Phil: We are well Rush. She’s sitting here watching the movie while playing scrabble (solo).
Rush: NICE!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Ignominy for the Indianapolis.
Godwinshelley2: I grew up close to one of the pilots who saw the Indianapolis men in the water and went back to help
Louise: Yes, Panama attracted all sorts of creeps when I was there.
Rush: Please extend our collective “Hello!”
Phil & Mrs. Phil: I will RUsh.
Dave: See something of the world, and smoke and drink and…
Rush: And, of course, the same to Rachel, Mike!
Rush: Note the oil wells in the background!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel is munching Indian take-out *waves* while Chan-ing
Rich Maine: Come to the cabaret! So gay and cosmopolitan
Rush: And the california palms.
Foxxama & Angelzone: Louise, we blame Panama alone, not you. Our files show only sterling for you.
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, Rush. Where are we?
Mike n Rachel in DC: *cough*
Rush: 5:30
Rush: 5:40
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Hey is that Lionel Atwill?
Foxxama & Angelzone: Scrub.
Rush: 5:50
Louise: F&A: thank you for the confidence
Rush: 6:00
Dave: Look who’s here…
Hawaii_Steve: Phil, you bet your Universal Horror collection.
Dave: Czech her our!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Achmed Halide. I believe my grandpa left me 23 shares of his company!
Rush: Lionel Atwill: Clivedon Compton
Rich Maine: All aboard
Rush: Yes, Phil!
Rush: 🙂
Phil & Mrs. Phil: You know me…I can never figure out if it’s Lionel Atwill or George Zucco. Wacky, I know.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Frontier Airlines?
Rush: 7:00
Dave: Cozy…catch word for…
Louise: So it has been 10 years of Chan chats for me and once again my husband has called in the middle of this one. I should just not answer.
Hawaii_Steve: Phil, I understand.
Rush:
Rich Maine: A birdcage!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Louise, surely your hubby knows your routine. My friends know i am In Conference Monday evenings.
Rush: Douglas “Dolphin” flying boat
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Smoking kills.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Passengers eyeing each other suspiciously
Mike n Rachel in DC: It does, Phil. Especially in Panama…
Dave: No one…no one interrupts the Chan Family Time
Phil & Mrs. Phil: That’s ok M&R I’m keeping my eye on all of you.
Louise: I suspect hubby is jealous of the attention I give all of you on Monday nights!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *cough*
Rush: Understood, Louise!
Hawaii_Steve: When the group goes to the Tropicana Night Club, look carefully for Desi Arnaz and Cesar Romero.
Dave: yup, louise
Foxxama & Angelzone: Phils, you are so right. The patsy here would still be with us if he wasn’t a Devil’s Leafer.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Really, Steve?
Louise: HS: I did not know about Desi Arnez…
Rush: Marie has gotten used to it over the 20-plus years!
Mike n Rachel in DC: A chorus of Babaloo?
Rush: FU YUEN PANAMA HATS
Hawaii_Steve: Oh, I’m sorry. Wrong film series.
Foxxama & Angelzone: Steve, i am a big fan of Desiderio Arnaz. I am scrounging now for my opera glasses.
Rush: Busy part of town!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Rush: Known as F U in some circles, no doubt?
Louise: Love the hats
Rush: Ouch! Angel…
Foxxama & Angelzone: RATS!!
Foxxama & Angelzone: WILLARD!!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Ben.
Louise: Can’t trust anyone in Panama
Foxxama & Angelzone: I think i know this song. Anybody else?
hounder: time check please?
Rush: Correct, Louise!
Rush: 12:55
Mike n Rachel in DC: *cough*
Dona: fast working
Rush:
Matt1: <tin can>
hounder: thanks.
Matt1: Smoking kills
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Cue the can – oops I’m a bit late
Rush:
Rush: “Muerto.”
Dave: Nice bit part by soldier
Mike n Rachel in DC: Cop has the Harold Huber role in this one
Dave: exactly, m/r
Rush: 14:40…
Mike n Rachel in DC: muy peligroso!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Just looked up Desi’s filmography; he doesn’t show before 1940. I will be studying this!
Louise: recognize that rear enbd?
Rush: 14:50…
Louise: end
Matt1: SLAP>
Foxxama & Angelzone: What rear?
Rush: 15:00
Dave: meanwhile, a familiar butt…
Rush: JIMMY!
Dave: Pop!
Rush: yes!
Rush: “Man without relatives is man without trouble.”
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Killed by Bowie Knife?
Dave: Nice Chan quote
Rush: One of my favorites.
Rush: Phil: 🙂
Rush: I am a little behind you.
Rush: Boanide.
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Ohhhhh
Rush: A brief lesson on the Canal!
Rush: Phil: 🙂
Rush:
mda19083 has joined this room
Matt1: Hello MDA!
mda19083: hello folks
Rush: WELCOME, MDA!
Dave: greetings, mda
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Hi mda
Rush: We can guide you in….!
Dona: Hi MDA
hounder: hi mda
Dave: young lady of fifty summers or more…
Rush: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Everyone wants to investigate the young female suspects…
Dave: like the visual
Rich Maine: And 75 winters
Rush: Well, Jimmy sure does!
Dave: haha rich
Rush: Yes, Rich!
Rush: And, by the way…WELCOME, Rich!
Dave: those winters!
Rush: Missed your arrival…sorry!
Rush: Nice fez.
Rich Maine: Oh u got me rush……no worries
Rush: 🙂
Hawaii_Steve: Nice model of Panama Canal.
mda19083: time check when you get a chance please
Dave: Fez-tastic
Rush: 22:00
Hawaii_Steve: 2143
Dona: 22
Rush: 22:10…
Rush: 22:20…
mda19083: many thanks all
Dave: Cryptic language, if you know what I mean…
Rush: 22:30…
Rush: 22:40….
Rush: 22:50…
Rush: 23:00
Dona: 23
Rush: Unless I am behind, that is!
hounder: nice shadows
Rush: Yes, Hounder!
Dave: right, hounder
Foxxama & Angelzone: THEORY ALSO BELONG IN BED.
Rush: Music builds…
Dave: Haifetz offscreen
Rush: builds….
Rush: Lollipop?
Mike n Rachel in DC: This is music from a Sherlock Holmes film…
Matt1: Marcelle?
Rush: Spider.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Where is Gallant Lad?
Rush: RATS!
Louise: rats
mda19083: plague
Rush: TWENTY of them!
Dave: Wow, m/r…
Rich Maine: Yes Mike!
Dona: YUCK
Rush: Meanwhile…at the Cabaret….
Rush: Agreed, Dona!
Mike n Rachel in DC: It’s not the rats that carry plague…it’s the rat fleas…
hounder: dramatic music
Dave: odd opening to cabaret scene
Dave: great singing from Czech girl
Hawaii_Steve: Victor Sen Yung is wonderful as Jimmy. He is 26 years old, but looks younger.
Rush: Pretty good grasp of Spanish for the young Czech lady!
Dave: exactly
Rush: “AND THIS MEANS THE NAVY!”
Rush: “SHUT THIS DOOR!”
Rush: Smoking on the job….
Hawaii_Steve: A lot of this movie is shot like a silent movie. Meaning little or no dialogue, just action.
Rush: May leave telltale ashes behind…
Dave: If there was nothing suspicious, Atwill wouldn’t be here?
Rush: Yes!
Louise: Yes H-S, good observation
Dave: right, steve
Rush: Yes, Steve! Good point!
mda19083: I have always wanted a white dinner jacket
Hawaii_Steve: The man kissing the lady’s hand looks just like Desi Arnaz. the white suit.
Rush: The drunken guy in the background!
Dave: My BIL gave me a nice jacket, several sizes ago…
Rush: Funny little part!
Dave: nice Chan insert shot, too
Rush: Between this club and the Hottentot Club…which is your choice?
Rush: We can throw in “Le Sange Bleu”!
Dave: little booths away from the action here…
mda19083: hottentot is hotter
Mike n Rachel in DC: 1. Le Sange Bleu, 2. Hottentot, 3. This dive
hounder: lol@dave. i know the feeling.
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Too many pervs at the Hottentot. I’d stay at Malolos
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Hottentot
Hawaii_Steve: I prefer Club Babalu. thank you.
Rush: 🙂
Dave: Any windows to throw girls through?
Rush: CC drinks his tea.
mda19083: tiger tea
Rush: Not in this club.
Dave: sasparilla
Rush: Miss FINCH!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: No knives either. There’s that…
Rush: Blew his cover!
hounder: mis finch is starting a riot
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Big mouth.
Hawaii_Steve: Spies. Spies everywhere.
Dave: right, rush!
Rush: “Perhaps better to let cat out of bag than drown same.”
hounder: way too big a mouth
Rush: YES!
Dave: Shocked, Shocked! that spies are here…
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: Any roulette in this joint?
mda19083: craps in the back room
Louise: such a dark movie
Rush: Looks like no roulette!
Dona: yes louise
Rush: I guess I should have included “Le Casino de Monte Carlo.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Fox trying to save on the electric bill, perhaps
Rush: AH!
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Went to the local casino last week. Totally misunderstood the craps table.
Hawaii_Steve: LOL !!!
Rush: “RATS!”
Rush: Phil: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: Bubonic Rats. New punk band.
Rush:
Rush: The monkey again!
Rush:
Dave: opening act: The Exterminators
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: They were going to do some covers from Cats, but thought better of it…
Louise: no, not CATS!
hounder: charlie locked himin. hope he can et out in an emergency
Rush: Louise: 🙂
Hawaii_Steve: Meanwhile … back at the club.
Rush: Yes…
Dave: frito bandito
Hawaii_Steve: Lots of smoking in this movie. Cough.
Rush: CC takes it all in….
Rush: Yes, Steve.
Dave: cancer lurking nearby…
Foxxama & Angelzone: None of these people is wearing tweed. Make a note.
Rush: The “Taximetro” cab is parked outside.
Rush: The ione we saw at the opening.
Dave: Uber?
Rush: (one)
Louise: No tweed in Panama
Rush: Cotton.
Louise: Linen and cotton only
Rush: Linen.
Rush: yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: No tweed. But they probably have some good weed.
Phil & Mrs. Phil: WHOA!
Rush: Louise, did you see my email about the line spacing using WP?
Rush: Any ideas?
Louise: M&R: only if you want to end up in thehoosegow
Rush: JIMMY!
Louise: Rush, yes, sorry, wasn’t on email this weekend. I will check it out
Dave: some gambling buddies of Jimmy
Rush: TYSM, Louise!
Rush: There must be a way to single-space.
Rush: Humidor.
Rush: It’ll make a nice tossing object!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Humidor? Isn’t that one of the guys in a bullfight?
Rush: STRIKE!
Rush: Mike: 🙂
Dave: don’t get ahead of the story…
Rush: Not to be confused with a cuspidor!
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Or a garage dor
Dave: Thermador?
Rush: Luchador…
Dave: Patiodor
Rush: 🙂
Phil & Mrs. Phil: bakdor
Rush: It’s nice that Jimmy doesn’t jump to conclusions…
Dave: Not except often
Rush: 🙂
hounder: must be how jimmy gets his exercise
Rush: Yes.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Nice dress
Rush: In his case, often the HIGH JUMP.
Dave: If it’s the Czech girl knock again!
Rush: Yes.
Dave: m/r, right
Rush: Baroness Von Zardas.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Nice dress, but the stripes don’t suit her. She looks much better in Czechs.
Rush: “The invaders”
Rush: Can’t say Germans yet.
Foxxama & Angelzone: Blastacious!!
mda19083: MNR 🙂
Rush: US is still “neutral.”
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Cue the can
Matt1: <tin can>
Mike n Rachel in DC: That’s right, Charlie. Sushi made from bad alibis is awful.
Rush: Like in “Olympics”
Dave: Some great CC lines…
Rush:
Rush: More jumping!
Dave: BOING!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Somehow Manolo’s hat looks wrong.
Hawaii_Steve: Also, the phone is dead. Oh, brother.
Foxxama & Angelzone: They’ll pinecone the plant?
Rush: Chan makes an impromptu trap here!
mda19083: hopefully the lights won’t go out
Dave: Cigarette?
Mike n Rachel in DC: oops
Foxxama & Angelzone: Strange Governor Webster.
Rush: A John Wilkes Booth-like escape.
Matt1: Jimmy, lol
mda19083: there go the lights
Rush: Power of suggestion!
Dave: The old knock out the lights trick
mda19083: sic semper tyranus
Rush: “Nifties”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Mr. Wong used it great effect as well, Rush. 😉
Rush: nifty – (Slang) First-rate; great.
mda19083: they are all reiner
Hawaii_Steve: Death Bed Scene and
Hawaii_Steve: Sen YUng. LOL.
Rush: Yes!
Dave: Good practice for his career
Rush: Historic footage of ships passing through the canal later.
mda19083: the man in the fez
Rush: USS Arizona (BB-39)
Rush: USS Lexington (CV-2)
Rush: USS Tracy (DD-214) and USS Dahlgren (DD-187), as well
as two other Town-class destroyers in the background
Dave: Turned her irritation voice to 11
Rush: Look for them later.
hounder: charlie just can’t avoid tripping over miss finch
mda19083: dave 🙂
Rush: Of course, the ‘Arizona’ met its fate on 12/7/41.
Dave: Is that third or fourth unexpected appearance?
Rush: The ‘Lexington’ went on to fight in the Pacific.
Rush: Badly damaged, as I recall.
Foxxama & Angelzone: Infernal machine.
Rush: Nice discovery!
Rush: Skeleton!
Rush: One of Halide’s relatives???
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Wow they have mighty nice mausoleums.
Foxxama & Angelzone: The Krauty lettering on her ID photo clinched her way early on.
Dave: Shades of Treasure Island
Rush: And, the “head” of the family in the table!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Madeline Kahn woulda been great in her role.
Rush: Note the mumified head!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Lexington was damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea, fixed really quickly then sunk at Midway.
Foxxama & Angelzone: JUST PUNISHMENT!!!!!!
Rush: Looks like the ione used in “Egypt” for the dead professor!
Dave: f/a right!
hounder: is your ear hurting yet charlie? finch seems to be leading you around my it.
Foxxama & Angelzone: MnR, that’s quite true. Ironic!
Rush: I actually think it WAS!
Rush: Never noticed it before!
Foxxama & Angelzone: Good night all! Till we meet again!!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good night Angel&Fox!
mda19083: be well angel and fox
Dave: evening, fox/angel
Rush: Good night, Angel…and Fox!
hounder: nite a n f. safe week
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Nite F&A
Rush: I like the shadows used to suggest machinery.
Rush: (tick…tick…tick….)
Dave: rush: nice touch
Rush: Arizona.
Rush: Lexington….
Dona: i lke the music
Dona: like
Rush: Yes, Dona.
mda19083: anchors away
hounder: fitting muic
Rush: When the anchor is raised, it is “weighed.”
Rush: “Weigh anchor!”
Rush: Hence, “Anchors Aweigh!”
Rush: Crickets…
Rush: Should have let him come in further!
Dave: Miss Finch has the ideas…
hounder: perfer to meet ancetors in more recognizable form
Rush: Yes!
Phil & Mrs. Phil: Cue the can.
mda19083: shoot first – ask questions later
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: MANOLO!
mda19083: she’s a screamer
Dave: oh yeah! mda
Rush:
Rush: The THIRD one.
Dave: He’s dead alright!
Rush: Indeed!
Rush: Flywheel shadow!
Rush: “Patience lead to knowledge.”
Foxxama & Angelzone has left this room
mda19083: high anxiety
Mike n Rachel in DC: oh no!
hounder: must have been lots of planning of this charade off screen
Rush: Reiner!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Subtitles have Ryner…not very German!
mda19083: carl?
Rush: WHO is REINER???
Rush: Well…make that…RYNER!
Dave: Rob?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Maybe it was spelled “Ryner” so as not to offend Germans?
Dave: Slow pan shot…
mda19083: MI6?
Dave: Did you do mean things to my rats?!
Rush:
Mike n Rachel in DC: He was actually 001, mda 🙂
Rush: The mask drops!
Rush: Got her!
Dave: Drop that voice, Ryner!
mda19083: she is!
Matt1: Chan foils again
Rush: “CURSES!”
Dave: Would have gotten away with a, if it wasn’t for…
Rush: Of course, giving the sabateur a German name allows the audience to draw the obvious conclusion!
Dona: Awsome
mda19083: book her danno
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hm. That final comment did not age well.
Dave: Music up…
hounder: yay!
Matt1: <yee-haw>
Rush: The fibnal shot in the movie was, I believe shot from Point Loma in san Diego overlooking the entrance to the Bay.
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah>
Matt1: That’s a wrap!
Rush: (Applause…)
Rush: THE END.
Dave: another great one
Dona: <Yahooo>
Rush: Well!
mda19083: another good one
Rush: That was a GOOD one!
Dona: one of my favorites!
Rich Maine: Yay! Thanks Rush!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Solid entry in the Chan canon
Rush: Next week….
Rush: “Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise”
Dave: agree, m/r
Phil & Mrs. Phil: As they say in Hungary – ALOHA!
Rush: 🙂
Phil & Mrs. Phil has left this room
Rich Maine: A great one!
Dona: Thank you Rush!
Mike n Rachel in DC: We are in a seafaring mode, Rush!
Dona: Goodnight all
Rush: Thank you ALL, again!
Dona: see you next week.
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha.
Rush: GREAT evening!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Thanks for an enjoyable evening. have a great week all!
hounder: nite all. see you next week.
Matt1: Good night everyone and have a great week….Go Bolts!
Dave: See everyone next week
Hawaii_Steve: Great film.
Rush: Aloha to you, Steve!
mda19083: be well all until next time
Mike n Rachel in DC: Tied 0-0 at the moment, Matt.
Rush: TYSM for the extras tonight!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Cheers!
Rush: As well as the information!
Matt1: I know
Rush: Have a GREAT week, everyone!
Hawaii_Steve: You’re well. I hope they added to the evening.
Rush: They did, steve!
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Rush: Good stuff!
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Godwinshelley2: Have a safe week everyone
Matt1 has left this room
Rush: TYSM!
Godwinshelley2 has left this room
Rush: Take care, everyone!
mda19083 has left this room
Rush: Be happy…be safe….enjoy the week!
hounder has left this room
Rush: Next monday will be Memorial day.
Louise: Bye all
Rush: Good night, Dona and Louise!
Rush: Take care!
Rush: I’ll try to be in touch, Louise!
Rush: Hopefully you can unravel the latest mystery!
Louise has left this room
Rush: Good night, Dona!
Rush: See you next week!
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