The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for June 1, 2020
Feature:
Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise
Extra:
Lost City of the Jungle (Chapter 9)
Participants:
Cdirus
Danventure
Dona
Godwinshelley2
HonoluLou
hounder
len freeman
Louise
Matt1
Mike n Rachel in DC
Nothere
Phil and Mrs. Phil
pinkflamingo
Rush
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hounder: hi pink. we’re a little early. everyone else won’t be along until the half hour mark
Pinkflamingo: Thanks. It’s been years since I joined you all. Forgot how it works
hounder: no problem we do meet and greet at the half hour then watch an extra. there’s a link above the chat room. right now we’re watching lost city of the jungle with key luke. at quarter past the hour we start the chan movie. you can use your own copy or the libk above the chat room. this week we’re watching murde cruise
Pinkflamingo: Thanks for the info
hounder: no worries. just catching you up on any changes you may have missed. btw welcome back
hounder: if i diappear don’t worry. internet is iffy here
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Pinkflamingo: You’ve been joining them for years, right. Seem to remember yoy
Matt1: Hello Pink & Hounder!
Pinkflamingo: Hi
hounder: hi matt.
Matt1: Hope you had a good trip Hounder and settled?
Rush has joined this room
Rush: Good evening!
Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: And….PINK FLAMINGO!!!!
hounder: s true pink. i sort of remember your handle as well.
Rush: A special WELCOME with RED CARPET for YOU!
Rush: Welcome baCK!
Rush: Ans, hello to Marr and Hounder!
hounder: rush i seem to have internet but it may go away at any time. just in case i disappear
Rush: Okay!
Rush: Just happy you could make it!
Matt1: Hope everyone had a good week
Rush: On a personal level…good, Matt…
hounder: a tiring one but we’re trying to settle back in nc
Matt1: One day at a time
Rush: But on a national level…not so good…
Rush: Yes, a day at a time…
Matt1: Hoping M & R are well and checking in tonight
Rush: Yes.
Rush: PF, are you still here?
hounder: oh yes matt
Rush: I noticed above that you were not sure how it works?
Rush: EASY!
Rush: Just join in as you like!
Pinkflamingo: Yes just feeding my dogs
hounder: i was just catching pf up on any changes she might have mied
Rush: We will be watching a serial in 10 or so minutes, and the link to it is above!
Rush: Nice, PF!
Rush: Happy chore!
Rush: Yes, Hounder…TYSM!
Rush: Our film tonight is “Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise.”
Rush: If you have a personal copy, we will start that one at 15 minutes after the hour.
Pinkflamingo: How long is the serial? And when will murder cruise start. I could run out and walk my dolls while a
Rush: Please pause your copy at the OPENING TITLE, and we will count down to the start.
Rush: Tonight, the serial runs 16:50.
hounder: i’m just going to hang out during the serial. connections not good enough to stream
Matt1: Where (time) are we starting the serial?
Matt1: Ok
Pinkflamingo: I don’t see a link anywhere
Rush: We start at 0:00 using the copy through the link above: “Lost City of the Jungle.”
Matt1: Ready here
Rush: Here’s the address if you need it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8W4s4JepcY&t=6s
hounder: the links on my screen are just above the chat window
Rush: If you look just above our Chat Room board, you will see the link to the serial and to tonight’s movie (if you need that).
Rush: I am ready, too…:)
Rush: We still have time…
Rush: about 7 minutes…
Rush: How have you been, PF?
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Pinkflamingo: Must be on the wrong site. Just says. Charlie chan chat room and an arrow down. Below that just Main
Rush: Len…
Matt1: Hello Len!
Rush: Good evening!
Len Freeman: Wow. had trouble getting in ttonght
Rush: Yes?
hounder: hi len
Rush: I had a little trouble, as well.
Len Freeman: My Safari browser wouldnt work, but Firefox did
Rush: PF, this serial, as we have it, has been chopped up a bit, so we have strange, uneven segments left to us to see!
Rush: Smetimes, we start at what seems to be the middle of action, and sometimes we stop a little oddly, as well!
Pinkflamingo: Think I’ll take the dos out and try to join you when murder cruise is on
Rush: But, the main good thing is we get to see Keye luke in a non-Chan role!
Rush: As you like!
Rush: No problem, PF!
Len Freeman: OK here… ready for serial…!
Rush: Most people start arriving during the serial and at about the top of the hour!
Rush: Very good, len!
Rush: 3 minutes to go…!
Pinkflamingo: Thanks sed you in a while. Can I just stay open or have to come back
Rush: As you like, PF!
Rush: You may find that you have “left” when returning, though, due to not posting for a while.
hounder: this room doesn’t drop you like the old one did
Pinkflamingo: Great thanks see you in a while
Rush: 90 seconds…
Rush: Very good, PF!
Rush: 🙂
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!!!
Len Freeman: titles
Rush: Mine keeps jumping due to Youtube popups!
Mike n Rachel in DC has joined this room
Rush: Mike/Rachel!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Finally. Uncooperative chat this evening!
Rush: Good evening to you!
Matt1: M&R!
Len Freeman: Same here M&R
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello all!
Matt1: You both Ok?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Pinkflamingo? Hello!
Rush: “Pendrang”
hounder: hi n b r
Rush: She’s back…but had to leave till the movie starts.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Are we at the beginning of “Part 3”?
Len Freeman: hot foot
Mike n Rachel in DC: Flames?
Rush: Indeed!
Rush: “Hotel Zalabar”
Matt1: I’m at 3:40?
Rush: Yes, M/R.
Matt1: 4:00
Rush: You’re about right, Mike!
Mike n Rachel in DC: We’re there!
Rush: Matt.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hotel Zalabar. You can check out…but you can’t leave. 🙂
Matt1: Rush
Rush: M/R: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: This dude is very Peter Lorre-esque
Rush: “Wel-come to thee Ho-tel ZAL-a-BAR…”
Rush: true, Mike!
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Rush: Hounder, it seems that you CAN get dropped!
Matt1: My life story
Rush: Hm!
Rush: Not smart giving him that negative!
Rush: saw THAT coming!
Mike n Rachel in DC: What? “I’ll handle this Johnson?” I thought we were a G-rated group…
Rush: Yow!
Rush: That would be one GREAT invention!
Len Freeman: WORLD POWR!!!
Rush: A device to make the A-bomb useless.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Now…if we could just make idiotic politicians useless, we’d have something useful.
Rush: “It’s NOT Hubert…it’s Ubert!”
Mike n Rachel in DC: ‘e ain’t got much likin’ for this ‘ere business
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Interesting “delivery.”
Rush: $500 then was a LOT!
Rush: that would be something like $8000 today.
Len Freeman: What FOUL fiends!!
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Some quick interior decoration…
Mike n Rachel in DC: This music keeps verging on “Maltese Falcon.”
Cdirus has joined this room
Cdirus: Hi guys!
Rush: CD!
Matt1: Hello CD!
Rush: Good evening!
Len Freeman: Ah the old tie em in the chair trick
Rush: Yes, Len!
Rush: Interesting death device!
Rush: Monogramesque!
Len Freeman: yes
Mike n Rachel in DC: Monagramesque = “cheap” 🙂
Rush: I like the arc between the elephants!
Len Freeman: although Monogram probably would’ve used a spear!
Rush: True! 🙂
Rush: “Pick a card…any card…”
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Hit me”
Rush: Later known as “See’pea.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel can make a fortune at blackjack
Rush: (Swee’pea)
Mike n Rachel in DC: (and poker)
Rush: She can still tip her head enough!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “BOOBY trap.”
Matt1: Ends with a BANG, not a whimper
Rush: The gun aimed lower!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Mike is IN
Len Freeman: Booby Trap Rendezvous coming!
Rush: Nice cliffhanger this week!
Len Freeman: classic
Rush: Part 10 next Monday…
Rush: Okay….
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Rush: 13 minutes until our feature…
Len Freeman: Hi NH
Mike n Rachel in DC: Of course, we go immediately to graduation music and sober white men.
Matt1: Hello NT!
Rush: “Charlie Chan’;s Murder Cruise.”
Nothere: Hello everyone. My bags are packed for the murder cruise.
Len Freeman: Going to load up my DVD,,,, BRB
Nothere: All aboard the death bot.
Rush: Mike, that’s that staid UN group!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “My bags are packed, I’m ready to go…”
Rush: They seem to have a VERY easy job!
Cdirus: I wouldn’t want to get on a boat after the plague ships this year
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Taxi’s waitin’ he’s blowin’ his horn…”
Rush: Mine, too, Mike!
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Rush: Passport not needed.
Rush: Lost Len!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Already I’m so lonely I could die…”
Nothere: Movie hasn’t even started yet, and Lenis taken out.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: 11 minutes to go…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey NT! Glad to see you’re Not Here!
Nothere: Alright no body move. Where were you at the time of the crime.
Nothere: Well Mike Racheal. I have to b omewhere. Which means I’m nowhere else.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We were right here. In DC. Under CURFIEW, thank you very much.
Mike n Rachel in DC: You’re always in our hearts, Nothere. 🙂
Matt1: How are you two making out?
Nothere: Oh your in Dc.Hope your away from the riot.
hounder: hi nt
Nothere: Hey Hound
Rush: So, hopefully this eveing will be something of a respite for ALL of us!
Matt1: I think tonight in DC is going to be tough
Rush: Yes.
Cdirus: We’ve even had protest here in our city, but thankfully we live in the country
Rush: Our area too.
Matt1: Eyes are watching DC
Rush: Parts where one would never expect to see it happen.
Rush: Outsiders.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We’ll be part of the protest…but first…Chan Clan. 🙂
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Louise: Hi Family!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
Rush: My “protest” is limited to the hobby horse race tonight…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey Louise!
Nothere: Hey Louise. Are your bags packed for the death cruise?
Rush: Louise!
Rush: WELCOME!!!
Matt1: Cued!
Louise: Glad to be here as the world falls apart. Chan is always here to remind us of stability.
Cdirus: Yeah, Dayton has already been through so much this past year, we don’t need anything else.
Rush: Packed and ready to sail, yes…
Rush: Agreed, CD.
Matt1: Only cruise I could book was tonight, so….
Louise: NT: Dearth cruise! My husband gets email every day for cruise bargains. Those are death cruises!
Rush: 7 minutes…
Rush: Understood, Louise!
Nothere: Yeah but do you have religious funimentalists condemning you on those cruies? We have two tonight.
Louise: M&R: Protest safely so you can come back to us.
Rush: I can hardly recall a cruise where people don’t get sick!
Rush: 6 minutes…
Matt1: I’ve never gotten sick on a cruise, knock on wood
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Nothere: Hey God
Matt1: Hello GS!
Rush: Len must be having trouble getting back in.
Godwinshelley2: Hello all
Rush: GS!!!
Louise: Hi GS
Rush: Good evening to you!
Cdirus: HI GS!
Godwinshelley2: Hi Louise – I was watching you!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: The best part about living in DC is that one lives…in a way that’s connected to vital things…and in a way that’s very separated from 99% of the country. It’s a combination of privilege and humility.
Rush: How are things going with you and your parents?
Godwinshelley2: Hello everyone
Louise: Great GS. I couldn’t tell who was there. Did you enjoy it?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey GS!
hounder: hi hs. are you still doing ok?
Godwinshelley2: Yes it was fun
Rush: I see you got in as “2” tonight rather than “3”, GS!
Godwinshelley2: Wish I could have seen the little insert photos – I was watching on my iphone
Nothere: So what were you doing Louise that people were watching you?
Godwinshelley2: 3 is my iPhone 2 is my laptop
Rush: AH!
Nothere: 4 is her evil twin sister.
Rush: 4 minutes…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Glad to have you in any venue, GS. 🙂
Rush: Yes, NT!
hounder: lol
Louise: I was being interviewed about my miniature work. You can see the video now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpgbrjmXGk&fbclid=IwAR3H5hyLp4qJ83tA0RuG22NnhorMtjKkQpJWcAtkFWeNiXLnPN7zoGR4Asg
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Nothere: GENTELMEN START YOUR BOATS!
Godwinshelley2: Managed to get back to Delaware to do some of MY medical stuff – my sister will be heading down to my folks tomorrow for her portion of FUN
HonoluLou: Aloha All
Nothere: Hi Lou
Rush: And, Hounder, i hope that your mother made the trip north well.
Matt1: How cool, Louise!
Rush: LOU!
Matt1: Lou!
Godwinshelley2: Hello Lou
HonoluLou: RUSH!
Rush: Aloha to YOU!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Aloha HonoluLou!
Louise: Thanks Matt. It was fun and I was interviewed by a gallery owner who has shown my work.
Rush: Yes, Lou!
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Matt1: Hello Dona!
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes…
HonoluLou: Aloha everyone, another GREAT film!
Nothere: Your work? So your a painter?
Rush: DONA!
Dona: Hello Everyone!
Rush: WELCOME!
Nothere: Hi Donna
hounder: hi dona
HonoluLou: Hiya Dona
Godwinshelley2: a Miniaturist – can’t spell it correctly
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Rush: TWO minutes!
len freeman: back
Rush: WB, LEN!
Matt1: wb Len!
HonoluLou: Salutations Len
Nothere: Len you surivived your attacker.
Rush: Everyone ready?
Pinkflamingo has joined this room
Nothere: Hi Pink
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued here
Dona: Ready here Rush!
Matt1: wb PF!
HonoluLou: I’m at the title, right?
Pinkflamingo: I’m ready
Cdirus: Hi Pink!
Godwinshelley2: Yes – at the title – not the fanfare logo
Louise: Here’s a better link to my interview: https://youtu.be/JkpgbrjmXGk
Dona: Hi Len, Hi PF
Rush: WB, PF!
Rush: 60 seconds…
HonoluLou: Great, thanks, GS
Pinkflamingo: Hi all
Louise: Cued here
Rush: 50 seconds…
Phil and Mrs. Phil has joined this room
Rush: 40 seconds…
Rush: Phil!
Rush: and Mrs!
Godwinshelley2: I usually run it with the subtitles on – to help me when I don’t understand some of the dialog
Rush: WELCOME!
Nothere: Whoa Mrs. Phil. That’s a new one on me. Phil you sly dog.
Rush: 25 seconds…
Rush: 20…
HonoluLou: Greetings Phils
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Aloha!
Rush: 15….
hounder: ready
Louise: I like the subtitles GS
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Phil and Mrs. Phil: What NT? You’ve never been aware of Mrs. Phil?
Rush: Title and music….
Matt1: Hello Phil’s!
Rush: Nice GONG, Matt!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Gone Baby!
Rush: s always!
Matt1: TYSM!
HonoluLou: So soothing, that music!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Indeed Lou
Rush: A somber version of the “Honolulu” song…
Nothere: Nope can’t recall. Meeting her. Hi course that makes sence as I’m not here:)
HonoluLou: Who’s making Mai Tais?
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Wow, 13 of us tonight
Rush: You are, Lou!
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: pot pie crisis here. Did we just start with the mail search?
Nothere: One of the few Chan’s with Chan working for his own department.
Rush: Rifling Pop’s mail!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Yinz know what tonight is?
Dona: I could use one Lou
HonoluLou: Ha, ha, OK Rush (and I’ll drink them for us 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: 15, Phil.
Matt1: #2 & #7!
HonoluLou: Coming up Dona!
Rush: June 1, Phil…?
Nothere: Caught in the act. Dummy up boys. Lawyer.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: WFF night!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yinz? Do we have NW Pennsylvanians here?
HonoluLou: Charlie sounds like he has a cold?
Rush: Chan sounds like he has a cold.
Rush: YES!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: SW PA M&R
HonoluLou: HAHA, great minds…
Louise: spooky lighting
Rush: Notice Willie’s beanie…and buttons!
Dona: I thought so too Rush
Nothere: Lawyer.
Rush: Recall the same worn by Jughead in Archie comics?
Rush: Yes, Dona!
Nothere: Cheesburger and a chocolate malt.
Matt1: Saved by the.….door
HonoluLou: Wow, maybe Jughead was related to Tom!
Rush: It seems that Honolulu schools had an “E” grade between D and F.
len freeman: Great Beanie,,,, anyone remember Beanie and Cecil?
Rush: YES, Len!
Rush: 🙂
Dona: I do Len
Rush: Inspector Duff.
Pinkflamingo: Yes, I’m that old
Nothere: Remember it. Never watched it.
HonoluLou: Len, a Bob Barkin Cartooooon!
Rush: 🙂
Nothere: Will Tom doff his cap to Duff?
HonoluLou: The famed Inspector Duff from the novels.
len freeman: My childhood favorite… live puppet version originally, with Cecil the Seasick Sea serpent
Rush: I don’;t recall them, really, but I think I watched the puppet version of Beanie and Cecil in the ancient days.
Dona: One of mine too Len
Rush: I think my mom told me about that.
HonoluLou: On of mine too, Len
len freeman: it WAS thre ancient days…
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Kookla Fran and Ollie
HonoluLou: HAHA (Rush)
Rush: 🙂
Louise: I’m watching on the gray market DVD collection: not very good quality.
len freeman: YES…Kookla
Rush: Understood, Louise!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Hey ah, somebody shut that window.
Rush: Those used to be our ONLY way of seeing this film!
Rush: We were happy to get even that!
Godwinshelley2: Sorry I stepped away – talking childhood television – like Diver Dan?
HonoluLou: That window actually looks practically “exactly” like the window outside The old Honolulu Police Station, Hawaii Steve took folks to on his tours.
Dona: I had them all on tape Rush
Dona: the dvd’s are much better
Louise: Yes Rush, can’t find my better DVD
Rush: As did I!
Nothere: Sorry Phil and or MRs Phil it’s the 40’s not exactly an air conditioning friendly era.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Yeah, but it keeps crime low.
Rush: It’s got to be around somewhere, Louise!
Rush: I have my old DVDs as a back-up, too!
Rush: The strangler!
Rush: ATTACKS!
HonoluLou: Gotta hurt!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Waiting…
Rush: Looked like piano wire!
Nothere: Well you do get fewer widow stranglings from closed as oppose to open windows.
Rush: YES, NT!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Cue the can.
Pinkflamingo: Strangler very good at his task.
Matt1: <tin can>
HonoluLou: Not on my watch!
Godwinshelley2: So do you do one or two can sounds?
Matt1: hmmmm
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Rush?
Mike n Rachel in DC: *Rachel closes all windows in house*
Godwinshelley2: for the Luani hotel person
Pinkflamingo: Why does he get a emt for the poor strangled guy
Matt1: <tin can>
Louise: Can I get a time check? I accidently stopped my video.
Cdirus: He’s not dead yet
Phil and Mrs. Phil: TYSM Matt
Godwinshelley2: 8:45
HonoluLou: The ole, “I’m a beggar, but really a murderer routine” so lame!
Rush: Recall something similar in another CC film?
Nothere: Well you got to give this guy credit. You really have to be commited to hang out of the police station to strangle people in the homicide buerauea.
Godwinshelley2: 9:00
Louise: Thanks
Godwinshelley2: 9:15
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, this is “Paris” recycled…
Nothere: Dosen’t say much about your local cops Lou. Sorry.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Too much action in a short time span
HonoluLou: Mr. Waverly, I wonder if Illya or Napolean are around?
Godwinshelley2: I can never remember if it was Lionel Atwill or George Zuccor that was nicknamed “Pinky”
HonoluLou: NT, haha.
Rush: Two down already.
len freeman: Lionel Atwill
Nothere: Isn’t the same disguise a Paris?
Phil and Mrs. Phil: GS that’s usually ME that confuses the two HAHAHAHA!
Rush: Yes, LOU!
Rush: Also…Cosmo Topper.
Rush: Wilkie.
Louise: Topper. Loved that show.
len freeman: \
Rush: “Wendell”
Dona: Me too Louise
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Nothere: Atwill alot healthier than in our jungle adventure earlier.
Rush: I remember whenever my parents made me wear suspenders, I said I didn’t want to look like Topper!
Dona: LOL
HonoluLou: Rush, it wouldn’t matter 🙂
Godwinshelley2: Someone posted a photo shot from a Fugitive episode where David walks past Del Floria’s tailor shop – the front for UNCLE headquarters.
Rush: Interesting lighting.
len freeman: Ye NH
Rush: From below.
hounder: topper was a great show
Louise: Romance always complicates these murders!
Rush: Agreed, Hounder.
HonoluLou: GS, wow, that’s pretty cool!
Nothere: Lucky for him Solo was out of the country.
len freeman: Robert Lowery…the second actor to play BATMAN
Rush: AH!
HonoluLou: Ah Ha!
Louise: Pieces of siler
Louise: silver
Nothere: That hurt.
HonoluLou: That is one of Charlie’s better hats!
Louise: Um, those drag lines are so obvious
HonoluLou: Dang, just missed him!
Nothere: So true Louise. Being a craze killer is one thing. But a sloppy crazed killer. I mean really!
Pinkflamingo: Room full of people and only Charlie sees tracks on rug.. he’s an eagle eye
len freeman: AH..JUST LIKE my woife taught me
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Pinkflamingo I don’t believe I’ve ever seen you here before.
len freeman: wife
Mike n Rachel in DC: “now I know why my feet get cold when the wife’s away.” So your wife is a chambermaid?
Pinkflamingo: Many years ago
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Ah.
Nothere: Your wife is a wolf Len? Funny usually it’s the other way round.
len freeman: Hmmmm
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Well…
Nothere: Yes he was murdered in your bed. But relax dude. It’s not like we left the body there.
Rush: By the way, Phil…please say “hello” to Mrs. Phil!
Pinkflamingo: This guy is good he dragged the body and now is shocked
Rush: I hope she’s enjoying the movie with us!
hounder: hi phil
Phil and Mrs. Phil: She’s smiling and says “That’s nice.”
Rush: 🙂
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Hi Hounder.
Rush: (Scream…)
len freeman: Mrs. Len says hi to Mrs. Phil
Rush: And a shot!
HonoluLou: This is funny…
Rush: Susie watson.
Rush: Yes, Lou!
HonoluLou: She needs a good smack!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Doesn’t he look a bit like john wayne/
Matt1: Face only a Mother could love
Rush: (Slap!)
Mike n Rachel in DC: EEEEEEK
Nothere: That face. Whos face? That face.
Pinkflamingo: Susie is a kick
Cdirus: I love her!
Rush: (SLAP!!!)
Godwinshelley2: Louise – on TCM facebook page – someone was asking about movies that featured bathrobes and pajamas – guess what films I suggested?
HonoluLou: In the novels, she’s a parody of Mrs. Marple.
Rush: “Peeping Thomas”
Rush: Speaking of mystery novels, Lou…
Cdirus: This bit has a Scooby Doo feel to it
Rush: TYSM for the recommendation!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Mrs Phil says “hello” to Mrs. Len.
Rush: Nice!
Dona: What did you say GS?
len freeman: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: Why Chan films of course
Rush: JIMMY!
HonoluLou: Yes, Rush. Always in progress.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: That cop’s reaction was kinda funny.
Nothere: And again Chan’s kids habit of breaking in places gets him arrested.
Pinkflamingo: Does #2son ever come into a room thru a door
Rush: I figure the first stories happen in 2014.
Godwinshelley2: In fact, I wonder if pajamas/bathrobes appear in nearly all the films?
Dona: that’s true GS
Louise: Pink: always the question!!!
Rush: Someday, lou, we need to go out for Chinese food in the area where these stories happen!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Somebody crack Frederick Ross across the bridge of the nose.
Louise: GS: I did a survey: about a third of the films have PJs.
HonoluLou: For sure, Rush. I got a list 🙂
Rush: Yes?
Rush: The spiritualist couple.
HonoluLou: Remember, one of my blogs, haha
Phil and Mrs. Phil: He didn’t want to be a buzzkill
Rush: I missed that, Lou…sorry!
Pinkflamingo: You can always count on #2 son to come in thru a window or skylight or some and to always tell something that was a secret and he Never listens to his father
Godwinshelley2: Nice Louise
Rush: True, PF!
Rush: She’s an eavesdropper…
Louise: Don’t call me Shirley…
Rush: 🙂
Rush: JIMMY!
Rush: Spills the beans.
HonoluLou: Rush, just google “Those Charlie Chan Eateries”
Phil and Mrs. Phil: It’s in COG nito
HonoluLou: Ahg! In the novels Duff survives.
Rush: THOSE I remember, lou…I thought you meant the dates of Lana Lee’s adventures!
HonoluLou: Ah So, Rush.
Pinkflamingo: Watch for my favorite seen.. #2 son wants to know why mr Walter’s didn’t mention his torn pocket..nowhere in this movie did Charlie mention the pocket to the cruisers
Mike n Rachel in DC: Pinkflamingo: All in all, Jimmy is a typical college student.
Pinkflamingo: This is true
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Has anyone ever been onboard a ship when its foghorn goes off? They are stupendously loud!
HonoluLou: P&P, no. That never occurred to me.
Rush: Time aboard ship: 10:30 PM…
Phil and Mrs. Phil: How can you tell Rush?
Rush: (According to the bells earlier…)
Mike n Rachel in DC: So just imagine how careful Jimmy’s going to be about the coronavirus when he comes back to campus this fall.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Oh.
HonoluLou: Rush, Pah-leeezeQ
Rush: Remember the ship’s horn and how it came into play in “Eran Trece” (“Charlie Chan Carries on”)?
Rush: Very different here!
HonoluLou: I saw a man sitting there, did anyone else (in case it comes up)
Pinkflamingo: Who cares
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Susie!
Pinkflamingo: Rush. What does 🙂 mean
len freeman: OK Loony
hounder: sorry in and out with mom.
HonoluLou: The Hand!
Rush: (Smile of agreement, PF!)
Pinkflamingo: Thanks
Rush: 🙂
HonoluLou: 🙁
Louise: Denying son again
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Charlie beats the crap out of #2
Rush: CC gets some peace for a while now…
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *cough*
Rush: Happened to Lee, too!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Now the binoculars start to sway.
Rush: Recall when?
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Rush: Loud awake…and asleep…
Rush: DV!
Rush: Good evening and WELCOME!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Hi Dan
Danventure: Hurrah!
Rush: How are you tonight?
HonoluLou: Greetings Dan
Rush: YAY!
Danventure: Thank you all!
Danventure: Late, but at least not “late”
Phil and Mrs. Phil: What an idiot!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Time to probe the Tomb of the Pharaohs, yes?
len freeman: Thanks Dad…
Rush: We are currently at 33:50 in the movie, DV…
Rush: Pop puts Jimmy to work.
Rush: 34:30
Danventure: Thanks, Rush. Got it.
Rush: Very good!
Danventure: One of my favorites, too.
Rush: Way to give him a heart attack!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Mr. Pendleton’s jaw is now broken
Rush: This IS a good one, DV…agreed!
Nothere: Alright ya mugs. I got my gat now. Sure your suddenly a tough guy.
Pinkflamingo: Sometimes I watch this movie 2 or 3 times a day
Rush: We have tonight a “remake” of the “lost” “Charlie Chan carries On.”
len freeman: They gi ve up so easily
Rush: PF: 🙂
Nothere: So Carries Paris and Murder. They really liked this plot.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: That’s NOT good
Rush: Now, THAT would be a signal to me to be EXTRA careful!
Rush: I woulkd ask to be with chan 24 hours a day!
HonoluLou: A warning of death…I like it!
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Similar to that used in “CC carries On.”
Rush: But that one was a bag of pebbles.
HonoluLou: Weren’t those pepples, Rush?
Nothere: Sure the murdered man in hi bed is too subtly. Better send a warning of death.
Rush: Yes, Lou!
Rush: We “tied” on that one!
Pinkflamingo: His wife’s a kick she doesn’t tell him she’s been married before or that her x is after them
HonoluLou: Right, to simulate “Diamonds”
Rush: Playing Americanized Majong.
Mike n Rachel in DC: We’re now past the Depression. Can afford dimes. Earlier, we had no money…had to use pebbles.
Nothere: Yeeah my crazed x is trying to kill me is at least second or third date material.
HonoluLou: There’s your “Han Dynasty” note, Rush
Rush: Han dynasty – The Han dynasty lasted four hundred years, from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D. The Han dynasty is the East Asian counterpart of and contemporary with Rome in its golden age. During this dynasty, China officially became a Confucian state, prospered domestically, and extended its political and cultural influence over Vietnam, Central Asia, Mongolia, and Korea before finally collapsing under a mixture of domestic and external pressures.
Rush: Yes, lou!
Rush: Chan begins “chopping.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes, Rush. Very illuminating. BUT. Did they play mah johngg?
Nothere: Confusis says. See Hans I told you.
Rush: NT: 🙂
HonoluLou: Han Dynasty = Roman Empire. A good analogy
Mike n Rachel in DC: The Romans, it should be noted, did NOT play mah johngg
Rush: I don’t think it was played in the Han Dynasty!
Rush: I would agree, Mike!
HonoluLou: Rush, correct. They played Twister!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Of course, lou!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Your move, Qunintas Errius!”
Rush: Sorry about the lower case.
Rush: Lou.
Nothere: So your working on a cruie ship when they come up to you. How would you like to be a bodyguard for someone a crazed killer is after. How much extra pay do you ask for?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Lots, NT. A whole lot.
Rush: Quite a lot, NT!
Pinkflamingo: Just doing it because it gets him out of his regular duties
Rush: Here comes a chase…
Rush: Cue the Benny Hill theme…
Louise: Crazy chase
HonoluLou: Jimmy, was pretty athletic.
Pinkflamingo: My favorite scene is coming now
Nothere: Well guards are interesting. There the only people you pay where you hope your wasting your money.
Rush: Yes, PF…
Louise: Lax in their moral conduct!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Why was your son rifling my cabinet?”
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Because he didn’t have a machine gun?”
Rush: A spiritualist worried about moral conduct.
Rush: HM.
Nothere: Yes lax in conduct. Like that blasted Flash Gordon.Sorry ignore that.
HonoluLou: Now Beat it!
Rush: Mike: 🙂
Rush: Yes, Lou!
Louise: Spiritualists were common in Chan movies
Rush: bluenose – A puritanical person.
Rush: Yes, Louise.
HonoluLou: Rush 🙂
Rush: Hobbyhorse races…
Nothere: In Treausre Island and Castle psychic powers were proven to be true.
HonoluLou: Louise, my favorite…Madam Saturna
Louise: Pop tell you!
Rush: Yes, NT. Especially in the case of Eve Cairo.
HonoluLou: Gosh they’re having fun!
Rush: Madamme saturnia’s predictions were sort of round about…but pretty accurate.
Rush: Eve Ciro was more of a mind reader.
Rush: (Cairo)
HonoluLou: Yes, Rush.
Dona: What is the one that takes place at a home in SF i think, the son drown.
Nothere: I demand that horse be tested for doping.
HonoluLou: Does anyone drink Rye anymore?
Rush: Lou, ANYTHING would be fun when compared to the murders that have dogged this tour group!
Nothere: Not me. But I never did drink alchol much. Now soda.
Rush: Someone must, Lou!
Rush: Agreed, NT!
Pinkflamingo: Think they should have tested rider as well as horse
Rush: I love these moonlit seas backdrops.
Mike n Rachel in DC: MnR = gin drinkers. So not much whiskey hereabouts. *hic*
Rush: yes, PF!
hounder: charlie alays the matchmaker
Rush: A LOT, Hounder!
Pinkflamingo: Some guard he is. Just stick your head in the dark room
HonoluLou: MnR, lol
Nothere: Ah yes the old make a noise to lure away the guard. Still works cause so few guards who fall for it are still around.
Rush: Or a relationship fixer-upper!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Charlie always sees the best in people. VERY rare for a policeman.
Rush: Looks like a Berlin Police Officer party hat!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Cue the can
Rush: Yes…
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Such things cannot happen in…BERLIN!”
Rush: 🙂
Pinkflamingo: If pendeltin doesn’t answer door to anyone and keeps it locked how did killer get in
HonoluLou: MnR, good one!
Matt1: Tin can was blocked out
Nothere: Charlie tours the world. He has no right to be the most jaded member of Honolulu pd. Now that poor traffic cop.
Rush: 🙂
HonoluLou: Sorry Charlie
Nothere: Well Pink by cunningly saying “LEt me in. I’m not the killer.”
Pinkflamingo: No mr chan to you
Rush: As I see it, the Honolulu PD sent CC around the world and more to publicize trhe Islands…sort of an “ambassador”!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Clearly the proprietors of this chat room have no appreciation for the significance of the can.
Rush: Maybe the Honolulu Tourist Board helped fund the trips!
Matt1: Clearly!
Nothere: I will not be stopped. TIN CAN
Phil and Mrs. Phil: I hold my breath every time the can has to go into operation
Mike n Rachel in DC: “The Litte Can That Could”
Mike n Rachel in DC: *Little
Mike n Rachel in DC: woo woo
Mike n Rachel in DC: (or *clink clink*)
Matt1: I was kicking and kicking …..the can
Phil and Mrs. Phil: It requires SPLIT SECOND timing on Matt’s part
Rush: The tin can sound was a feature of our last Chat Room. We had no “bucket” sound to “kick,” so we used the can. When that Chat Room disappeared and we got this one, there were no sound effects, so we cling to the old sounds through words!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Kick the can…spin the bottle… *Mike looks at Rachel and winks*
Nothere: I am but a poor and sad substitute for the skill and daring that is MAtt.
Matt1: Yeah, baby
Nothere: 7 minutes in heaven for the couples here?
Rush: So…whenever a victim passes, Matt or someone else if he’s not here, notes the “can.”
Matt1: Circus was always a great film for sound effects too
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Matt doesn’t say much but his presence is critical.
Rush: Missed that, NT!
Danventure: Curiously enough, there was a “Broadmoor Apartments” in Salt Lake City in that era. It survives as the “New Broadmoor Apartments”. 😉
Matt1: Man of few words…..just actions, or cans
Rush: YES!
Nothere: Well folks this is where I leave you. May the gentle trade winds blow you on ships with at least 1 less murder until I am Nothere again.
HonoluLou: Jimmy goes for it!
Rush: Take care, NT!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Goodnight NT
Matt1: Take care NT!
Rush: See you next weeek?
len freeman→Rush: Gnight
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey NT. Always glad when you’re not here. 🙂
Pinkflamingo: Goodnight
Dona: Goodnight NT
HonoluLou: Aloha Oe, NT
Rush: Next week: “Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum.”
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HonoluLou: Pop, Pop, I’m thirsty…Pop!
Rush: 🙂
Pinkflamingo: How does he breathe thru that full face mask
Mike n Rachel in DC: Panic attack again
Rush: Same way we ALL do these days, PF!
HonoluLou: Nowhere to run, buddy!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *iiiiin* *oooouuuut* *iiiiin* *ouuuuut*
Rush: And…where else did we see THIS happen?
HonoluLou: Charlie with a gun, another time
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Cue the can
Mike n Rachel in DC: OK, everyone. Start channeling good can vibes.
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: With a gun…but without USING it!
Louise: bad can
Matt1: I’m baaaaaaack!
HonoluLou: Rush, City of Darkness
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Niiice Matt
Mike n Rachel in DC: *high five for Matt*
Matt1: Can needed some oiling 1st
Rush: I was thinking of another, Lou…
HonoluLou: Hmmmm!
Rush: “Charlie Chan in….”
HonoluLou: Reno, NY, The wax museum…haha?
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Panama
HonoluLou: Doooo! Right.
Rush: When Miss Finch did the deed.
Rush: No problem, Lou.
HonoluLou: Whew!
Rush: I was scratching my head, admittedly, when you mentioned “City in darkness”!
HonoluLou: Didn’t the guy have a mask on?
Rush: Drop it into the coffin.
Rush: he did.
HonoluLou: Forget it, where off to the morgue.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Matt: Let this be a lesson, Cans need maintenance.
Rush: And…there’s the mask.
Rush: Which was worn by Ross.
HonoluLou: Right!
Rush: Kay Linaker.
Pinkflamingo: Enter the sad new widow
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yes you are, Kay.
hounder: jim eberhart
Rush: Yes!
HonoluLou: Jim, Jim, he’s our man. If Jim can’t get her no one can!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: You think she could be reading her lines on the backside of those bandages?
Rush: In “CC Carries On: “Jim Everhard.”
Rush: maybe, Phil!
Rush: 🙂
hounder: did the coroner even notice the bndages on her eyes?
Pinkflamingo: She’s a kick goes to the police on her 1st husband who tries to kill her and doesn’t tell 2nd husband anything
Rush: Use of more “under lighting” in this scene.
Rush: PF…life can be complex!
HonoluLou: Ahg!
Rush: Chan at work…as we will see!
Rush: Smelling salts.
HonoluLou: The Set Up.
Rush: Lights out!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: LIGHTS!
HonoluLou: Which way did he go, Which way did he goQ
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Rush: We can now test her psychic abilities!
Rush: Poor Susie.
Pinkflamingo: When did chan have time to set up the cruise director. When they Charlie departed different ways
HonoluLou: And some coffee.
Rush: Must have spent all her money on that trip.
Rush: All those sandwiches???
Pinkflamingo: This guys eating 5 szndwiches
Rush: Yes, PF! seems so!
Louise: SCREAM!
HonoluLou: He’s hungry!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Yeah, he’s got a pretty good appetitie
Rush: Yes.
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Pretty hard to scream if you’re being choked to death.
Rush: Too much talk!
HonoluLou: Oh no! He’ll never get the job at U.N.C.L.E. now!
Rush: This one has a “connection” to yet another Chan movie!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: That’s his identical twin
Rush: Any takers?
Danventure: LOL Honolulou!
Rush: Lou: 🙂
HonoluLou: Take the scumbag away!
Rush: We have a VERY similar circumstance in…
Rush: “Charlie Chan in Paris.”
Rush: The “Two Xaviers.”
Pinkflamingo: No problem in those days you could change your name get a new ss card etc without a problem,, he did have a different name on uncle
HonoluLou: Right!
Rush: He did, PF!
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Dona: she doesn’t seem very upset about her husbands death
Rush: WB, Len!
Rush: Sorry about the unplanned exits tonight!
Phil and Mrs. Phil: Mrs. Phil noted the same thing Dona.
HonoluLou: BANG!
len freeman: HE plated a number of villains in the 30s/40s….. until he became nice guy in Topper
Rush: Oh, Jimmy!
Pinkflamingo: Why should she when she practically set him up by not telling him anything
Rush: A new hole in the floor!
Matt1: <yee-haw>
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah.
len freeman: Great cast
Rush: Closing credits…
HonoluLou: Great Chat, Aloha to All from Cleveland.
Rush: THE END…
Dona: YAY!!!!!!!
Louise: Alas, another one done
Dona: Another good one Rush!
Rush: (Applause….)
Yes!
Rush: Again….
Danventure: What fun!
Rush: Next week….
Rush: “Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum”
Pinkflamingo: Rush what is next weeks
Rush: A good one indeed!
Mike n Rachel in DC: In the heyday the Chans!
Rush: And…a bit spooky!
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Louise: WAX MUSEUM! YAY!!! Thanks all for being here and sharing the evening.
Rush: Yes, Mike!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: Good night all…have a wonderful week!
Rush: Please say “good evening” to rachel!
Matt1: Good night folks…..Have a safe and healthy week!
Rush: Thank you ALL, for a GREAT evening!
Rush: Welcome BACK home, PF!
Mike n Rachel in DC: She’s here…cheering for Wax Museum…an MnR favorite
Pinkflamingo: Good night to all
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Phil and Mrs. Phil: Wash your hands – you don’t know where they’ve been! Good night.
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Danventure: Hope I am more on time for next week!
Danventure: Ciao!
Rush: I hope you can make this a regular event!
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Dona: Goodnight Everyone. See you all next week.
Rush: May everyone have a happy, and SAFE week!
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Rush: Hang in there…all this craziness cannot last forever….
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Rush: Chan is a great cure for any anxiety!
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Rush: Take care, Hounder, Louise, GS!
Rush: And, GS…
Rush: Nice that you were able to stay on tonight!
Rush: Hounder, my best to you and your mother.
Godwinshelley2: Thank you – hope you all have a good week/.
Godwinshelley2: night
Rush: And you as well!
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Rush: Good night!
Rush: Thank you, Louise for your contributions…as always!
Rush: The gold coins in the money bag!
Rush: Good night!
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