The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for August 26, 2019
Feature:
The Shanghai Cobra
Extra:
Secret Agent X-1 (Chapter 6)
Participants:
Atomant
Cdirus
danventure
Dona
Godwinshelley2
Hawaii_Steve
HonoluLou
Louise
Matt1
Mike n Rachel in DC
PaulM
pdclassicdvd
Rush
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Rush: TEST.
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Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: Good evening, Matt!
Matt1: Back to work soon?
Rush: How are you?
Rush: I am back at work.
Rush: Summer is officially over.
Matt1: Doing well, thnx…..Heading out to visit family in PA next week, so I won’t be here
Rush: Well, I wish you a happy and safe trip, Matt.
Matt1: School has been in session 3 weeks now here in FL
Rush: School must get out in late May or early June where you live?
Matt1: We always started the Tue after Labor Day when I went in PA
Matt1: Yes, depending on storm closures I think
Rush: When i was a kid, school began around September 15 and enede around June 15.
Rush: Three full months of summer vacation.
Matt1: Nice!
Rush: (ended)
Rush: That was nice!
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HonoluLou: Aloha from CLE
Rush: hello, Lou!
Rush: WELCOME!
Matt1: Hello Lou!
HonoluLou: Hi Matt, Rush.
Rush: How are you doing, lou?
HonoluLou: Great. Been celebrating Earl’s birthday!
Rush: AH!
Rush: Yes, indeed!
Matt1: The big 135!
Rush: 🙂
HonoluLou: Hard to believe it’s been that long, why I remember when he was a youngster…haha!
Rush: He passed away far too young.
Matt1: lol
HonoluLou: True True. 48 years wasn’t it?
Rush: I believe so.
Matt1: Wow
Rush: Stress was the thing that eventually did him in.
Matt1: Ulcer?
Rush: High blood pressure and a bad heart, i believe.
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HonoluLou: I saw on the TV last night, that Jane Austin (Pride & the Prejudice) only wrote 6 books too!
Rush: STEVE!!!
Matt1: Alohaaaaaaaaaa Steve!
Rush: Good evening to you!!!
Rush: How have you been?
HonoluLou: Greetings Steve.
Rush: Lou arrived just before you!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha from the great fortune cookie in the South Pacific !!!
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Another day in paradise?
HonoluLou: Man who eat fortune cookies sometimes get wisdom sprouting from wrong end!
Rush: How is “the other side of the island treating you?
Hawaii_Steve: I’ll be dog-gone, if it isn’t the old gang back together again.
Rush: YES!
Matt1: Easy on the “Old”
HonoluLou: Hail, Hail, the gangs all here!
Hawaii_Steve: aloha to Rush, Lou, Matt, and all the other Chanettes.
HonoluLou: I qualify for the OLD.
Rush: Ah, I hear your dulcet tones, Lou!
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Rush: AA!
Matt1: Hello AA!
Rush: WELCOME!
Hawaii_Steve: Lou, great quote. LOL.
HonoluLou: It was my first :).
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Rush: Steve, the burger place I meant to recall to you weeks ago was ANDY’S.
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Rush: Is it still in business?
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Matt1: Hello PD!
Rush: hello, PD!
Hawaii_Steve: Life***ilua is sweet. I’m just a stone-throw from the opening scene from The Black Camel.
Rush: Good evening to you!
HonoluLou: Hi PD
pdclassicdvds: Hello everyone
Atomant: Lets see if I can type…Greetings all
Rush: Welcome back, AA!
Atomant: TY
Matt1: wb AA!
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HonoluLou: Happy returns AA
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Hello M & R!
Rush: Lou, you are in great form tonight!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hi everyone!
HonoluLou: Hi M&R. Thanks Rush.
Rush: M/R!
Rush: WELCOME!
Hawaii_Steve: Never heard of Andy’s, but I haven’t explored all of Kailua yet.
Atomant: Hi M&R
Rush: Marie and I got milkshakes there a couple of times.
Hawaii_Steve: As Lou has mentioned, this is an important day in Chan history.
Rush: They had a saying that “You can see us from the Pali.”
HonoluLou: Rush, was that you in Beach Blanket Bingo?
pdclassicdvds: What time is it in Hawaii?
HonoluLou: Mai Tai Time in HI
pdclassicdvds: Nice Lou
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Mike n Rachel in DC. How is our president doing? Thrown any eggs at the White House lately?
Matt1: lol
Rush: 2:30 in HI?
pdclassicdvds: AM or PM?
Mike n Rachel in DC: No Steve, he’s not there at the moment. Have to wait for the return.
Hawaii_Steve: It’s 1:38 afternoon in Hawaii.
Rush: Hopefully PM!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: AH!
pdclassicdvds: That is not too bad.
Rush: I forgot about our daylight Savings.
Hawaii_Steve: Hawaii does not do the time change as the rest of the country does.
Rush: Adds an hour difference.
pdclassicdvds: Why is it an important date in Chan history?
Mike n Rachel in DC: If 1:38 is drinking time in HI we may be moving soon…
HonoluLou: HI Steve, has banker’s hours.
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, three hours from here to the west coast.
Rush: Lou will answer that one, PD!
Rush: Yes, Steve…for a little while longer.
HonoluLou: Earl’s 135th Birthday, Yeaaaaaa!
Rush: Charlie Chan’s Poppa!
Hawaii_Steve: Thanks, Lou.
pdclassicdvds: Oh wow and I didnt even bring a gift.
Atomant: Wow
Hawaii_Steve: Without poppa, there would be no Charlie.
HonoluLou: I got him some burnt peanuts, we’re eating them now!
Rush: I think we have enough time tonight to bake a collective virtual cake!
HonoluLou: Also, enjoying a nip of Tiger Tea!!!
Hawaii_Steve: Mr. Biggers looks petty good for a guy 135 years old. He doesn’t look a day over 97.
Rush: Sounds “tasty” Lou…
Matt1: Where is Virgina when we need her?
HonoluLou: And Len, will he be in?
Rush:
Rush: I think he will, Lou.
HonoluLou: Cool! Hiya Earl, Happy Birthday!
Hawaii_Steve: In honor of his birthday, I brought a zip plate from Zippy’s.
Rush: We should probably begin running our serial….
HonoluLou: Steve, you always were the gourmet!
Rush: The link is located above…
Matt1: Ready here!
Hawaii_Steve: Great image Rush. I didn’t know we could add images.
Rush: “Secret Agent X-9”
Atomant: rdy
Rush: Ready here, too…
pdclassicdvds: ready
Mike n Rachel in DC: All set in DC
Rush: Countdown….
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25..
HonoluLou: fuse lit, here!
Rush: 20…
Hawaii_Steve: Ready in Hawaii. Cht 6 correct?
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: Yes.
Matt1: Yes 6
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Grim music
Rush: Yes! This musis means business!
Rush: (music)
Rush: Shadow Island.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dragon Lady
pdclassicdvds: Perhpas
Mike n Rachel in DC: Another car chase!
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Rush: Ah..a nice country drive…
pdclassicdvds: are you kidding me
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dumb crooks…
pdclassicdvds: very dumb
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Matt1: wb Lou!
Rush: WB, Lou!
HonoluLou: Whew! Had to dodge that car!
Rush: So, we see that the cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 5 led us astray…!
Hawaii_Steve: Love the backlots at Universal studios.
Atomant: I finished haunted harbor and it was always fist fights. Chan actors though. I like this serial better
Rush: He was not shot!
Rush: Maybe he was faking it!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Keye is in trouble.
Rush: (For the benefit of the bad guys…)
Rush: Yes.
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Rush: Besides sons One and Three, there are at least two other Chan actors in this one…
HonoluLou: Had to get two screens going 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: 🙂
Rush: Sorry about the swinging door tonight, lou!
HonoluLou: All me, Rush.
pdclassicdvds: Please dont hurt #1 son
Rush: This chapter is titled “Strafed by a Zero.”
Rush: Could be a good ending.
HonoluLou: Hey, that’s son #3?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Chan actor #2
Rush: Number Three Son.
Atomant: Can you please look at me
Atomant: 🙂
Rush: We also have Cy Kendall and Ann Codee.
HonoluLou: Wow.
Rush: Bother were in CC films.
Rush: (both.
Mike n Rachel in DC: wow that was close
Rush: Sorry about my typos tonight!
HonoluLou: He brought a knife to a gunfight!
Rush: Worse than usual!
HonoluLou: Tiger Tea, Rush?
Mike n Rachel in DC: We attribute it to the extra-thrilling nature of the film!
HonoluLou: Is that Spencer Tracy?
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Cy Kendall…
Hawaii_Steve: This is a mix plate of WWII characters, Japanese, Germans, Chinese, et al.
HonoluLou: See that cabinet behind him (Chinese)?
Rush: Recall him in “The Chinese Cat.”
HonoluLou: Loyd whatisname?
Atomant: smashing the chair…I won’t have it
Rush: AH! Lloyd Bridges!
Rush: Yes, Lou!
Hawaii_Steve: And gangsters.
HonoluLou: Where’s his scuba tanks?
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Yes, I used to watch that one as a kid!
Hawaii_Steve: This serial is filled with characters similar to “Casablanca.”
Rush: “Sea Hunt”
HonoluLou: Wow! Spencer Tracy doesn’t have too many lines.
pdclassicdvds: Does this guy at the bar ever move?
Rush: Agreed, Steve!
Rush: Mike, i neglected to have you say hello to Rachel for us!
Rush: “Good evening, Rachel!”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel waves
Rush: Waving back!
Hawaii_Steve: That
Hawaii_Steve: That’s the same lagoon used in A&C Meet Frankenstein.
Atomant: edwin
Rush: Well, Lou…we at least have the “sea.”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Why does he have to repeat all the orders? He’s two feet from the guy.
Rush: And, we could say that there is a “hunt” going on!
HonoluLou: These are water versions of Chan’s “Fliver”
Mike n Rachel in DC: I sense a Zero-strafing coming up
Mike n Rachel in DC: I think James Bond started out like this
Rush: “Welcome aboard!”
HonoluLou: Are here buttons covered? Nice!
HonoluLou: They don’t make clothes like that anymore!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Of course they are Lou. This is a family film!
HonoluLou: M&R, haha.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel swats Mike
Rush: Right on the clothing, Lou.
Rush: Mike: 🙂
HonoluLou: That cab driver looked like Louis Jordan!
Atomant: Edwin Luke in this , right ?
Rush: Signaling the Zero!
HonoluLou: That’s war of the worlds lighting.
Rush: Just Keye, I believe, AA.
Atomant: The torp guy sounded like him
Mike n Rachel in DC: The beam through the air?
HonoluLou: Yes.
Rush: Strafing coming soon?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Zero
pdclassicdvds: everyone in this serial are terrible shots
Mike n Rachel in DC: diving…
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Louise: Hi Gang
Mike n Rachel in DC: this pilot probably can’t shoot straight either, PDC
HonoluLou: Oh OH! Steve, get low incase it’s a repeat!
Atomant: Hi Louise
HonoluLou: Hi Louise, Lou
Louise: Nice to be here
Rush: My prediction: The pilot missed!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hi Louise!
Rush: Hello, Louise!
Rush: Good evening to you!
Hawaii_Steve: Very nice.
Louise: Sniffle! Sniffle!
HonoluLou: Do we keep watching? Mine came on autopilot (pardon the pun)
Matt1: Nope, ended Lou
Rush: our feature, “The Shanghai Cobra,” starts in 11 minutes…
Atomant: Edwin Luke Japanese Sailor (uncredited) …Found him
HonoluLou: Praise be to Confucius!
Matt1: Cue up!
Rush: Yes, AA?
Rush: GREAT find!
HonoluLou: 8:15 start, yes?
Rush: TYSM!
Louise: Not a cold: I made chili that was so hot it is making my eyes water and nose run.
Matt1: My favorite kind Louise!
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Godwinshelley2: Howdy all
Matt1: Hello GS!
HonoluLou: That sounds tasty, bring any?
Rush: Ah, Louise! That is the sign of a GOOD chili!
Atomant: Hiya GS
Rush: GS!
HonoluLou: HI GS
Rush: Good evening!
Rush: WELCOME to you!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello GS
Hawaii_Steve: By the time “X-9” was released (7/1945), the Germans had surrendered. The Japanese were still fighting in the Pacific.
Godwinshelley2: There was a 2-gun chili packet we used that had a small red packet extra labeled “if you are not serving to sissies or women, add this packet”
Rush: True, Steve.
HonoluLou: Nice bit of history, Steve.
Rush: Technically, there were Japanese fighting in the pacific until the early ’70s!
Godwinshelley2: Herb added it and suddenly my eyes were watering while I was sitting on the sofa and I asked – did you add the packet – he said yes
Rush: I see!
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Louise: GS: That is a weird warning!
Godwinshelley2: Hello Paul
HonoluLou: So Herb added the herbs?
Rush: Paul!
Matt1: Hello Paul!
Godwinshelley2: How is your Mom>
Rush: Good evening!
Paul M: hi gang. out in Arizona right now
Godwinshelley2: Louise – it was in the 1970s
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello Paul
Hawaii_Steve: Hello GWS. Guess who?
Godwinshelley2: Alohaaaaa
HonoluLou: Hi PM.
Godwinshelley2: How are the new digs?
Rush: Enjoying the heat there, Paul?
Louise: GS: that is one very outdated packet in more ways that one!
Hawaii_Steve: Kailua digs are wonderful.
Godwinshelley2: nice
Paul M: staying inside for the most part
Rush: (Unless you are in Northern Arizona!
Paul M: i’m with my mom in Mesa
Rush: Good idea, Paul!
Godwinshelley2: she was cooking for you!
Rush: But, at least it is “dry” heat.
Paul M: we went out for shawarama for lunch
Mike n Rachel in DC: So is an oven, Rush. 🙂
Rush: 5 minutes to go, everyone…
Rush: TRUE, M/R!
Louise: Cued here
Matt1: Cued to opening title here!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sounds yummy, Paul
Rush: Please pause at the opening title…
Hawaii_Steve: All set in Hawaii.
Hawaii_Steve: Pathe Pictures presents …
Rush: Yes.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Very odd opening gong sound in this one…cued slightly past opening gong in DC.
Louise: Not into gongs today Mike?
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued here
Rush: That works, M/R.
HonoluLou: Just heard the GONG.
Mike n Rachel in DC: This one sounds like a garbage-can lid.
Paul M: here today, gong tomorrow
Mike n Rachel in DC: K-mart gong.
pdclassicdvds: Nice Paul
HonoluLou: PM, a good one!
Hawaii_Steve: I haven’t seen the X-9 shorts before. Nicely done. Universal had the budget that Monogram didn’t. The feature will confirm my statement.
Rush: THREE minutes to go…
Rush: “OUCH,” Paul…but funny!
Louise: A gong with indigestion.
pdclassicdvds: Republic made the best cliffhanger serials
Paul M: i’m glad i remembered the 3 hour time difference. it’s 5:10 here inAZ
Rush: 2 1/2 minutes to go…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Low-budget Monogram gong, perhaps?
Hawaii_Steve: I don’t hear sound effects? do I need to turn on something?
Rush: I am glad too, Paul!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: TWO MINUTES…
HonoluLou: Yes, look for a pic of a speaker, Steve.
Rush: 90 seconds…
Rush: 75 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: adjusts goggles
Hawaii_Steve: somebody send a sound effect please.
Rush: 60 seconds…
Rush: Get that can ready tonight, Matt!
Rush: 50 seconds…
HonoluLou: None on thiss chat Steve.
Rush: 40 seconds…
Godwinshelley2: Mike you should have an apron and wooden spoon
Louise: and those sci-fi sounds
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Mike n Rachel in DC: 🙂
Rush: 15…
Hawaii_Steve: I can hear the movie fine, but effects from chat room. Sad.
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1:
Rush: Title…
Rush: Credits…
Louise: Steve, there are no more sound effects
Mike n Rachel in DC: Steve, this chat room doesn’t have sound effects. 🙁
Hawaii_Steve: Thx Matt.
HonoluLou: I like Sydney Toler!
Rush: Nice GONG, Matt!
pdclassicdvds: Toler is my favorite Chan
Louise: Toler is the man
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Rush: As do I, Lou!
Matt1:
Rush: hello, DONA!
Godwinshelley2: I like whichever one we are watching
Rush: WELCOME!
Dona: Hello everyone!
Louise: Ho Dona
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Rush: Just started the movie!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey Dona! Good to see you.
HonoluLou: Hi Dona
Louise: Lovely music again
Louise: watery
Atomant: HI Dona
Godwinshelley2: Is this the rainiest Chan film?
Rush: I love these rainy scenes in this one.
Hawaii_Steve: It was a dark and stormy night …
Dona: I started i might be alittle behind
HonoluLou: Hey cool wipers!
Mike n Rachel in DC: We were just wondering how many Chan films start at night…or in rain, fog, etc.
Rush: I recall wipers like those, Lou.
Louise: Great shadows
Rush: Agreed, Louise!
Dona: I do too Rush
pdclassicdvds: very subtle
pdclassicdvds: lol
Paul M: Oh, i Love a Rainy Night
HonoluLou: Rush, you might want to keep it a secret 🙂
Godwinshelley2: She does look pretty wet
Rush: This is the “noir” Chan film.
Dona: Is it the only one Rush?
Louise: definitely, Rush
HonoluLou: Could she have a smaller waist?
Rush: Maybe you are right, Lou!
Rush: Yes, Lou.
Louise: I love the beef stew scene
Rush: Joe’s Coffe Shop.
Hawaii_Steve: Look out toots. The gong has a gat.
Rush: (Coffee)
Rush: Steve: 🙂
Louise: So Rush, I did not know about the “panorama” machines you mentioned in your email.
Mike n Rachel in DC: soon to be Joe’s Coffin Shop…
HonoluLou: I’ll take some stew!
Rush: I’ll have a slice of that 15-cent pie.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Me too. It sounds great!
Godwinshelley2: Her coat looks rather dry now
Atomant: Ditto
HonoluLou: Rush, are you channeling Elvis?
Godwinshelley2: And it’s only been a minute or two
Rush: The one-way video jukebox.
Louise: don’t press it
Matt1:
Godwinshelley2: everyone’s coat looks dry now
Rush: Quick thinking!
HonoluLou: My thoughts exactly, Rush
Louise: movie magic
Mike n Rachel in DC: Technological marvel: Jukebox, TV set and…
pdclassicdvds: She didnt even drink her coffee
HonoluLou: Keep the dang nickel.
pdclassicdvds: I wish I had some beef stew
Hawaii_Steve: Coffee, coffee. Can we talk about something other than coffee?
HonoluLou: ARGHHH!
Louise: He’s wet now
Mike n Rachel in DC: Mr. Black should have had the stew.
Rush: His mother told him he’d end up in the gutter…
Atomant: To much caffine
Mike n Rachel in DC: Cop right on the scene.
Godwinshelley2: Wow from almost deserted street to a big crowd
Louise: he’s wet
HonoluLou: Rush, haha
Louise: Bang!
Godwinshelley2: His coffee shop is rather fancy with the Asian accents and the jukebox
Matt1:
Rush: Poor Joe…
HonoluLou: The Cobra!
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
pdclassicdvds: dont call me chief lol
Rush: 🙂
Louise: Only one man…CHAN!
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Rush: Calling Charlie Chan!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Can he toot Jan’s Horn?
Louise: I love that grin
Dona has joined this room
HonoluLou: Ah, so he worked the streets of HNL. Ever see him Steve?
Rush: Welcome back, Dona!
Godwinshelley2: Was that the capitol outside of Charlie’s office
Mike n Rachel in DC: I definitely need to try that trick at work.
pdclassicdvds: the famous Chan walk. Way to kill time
Godwinshelley2: Shouldn’t he have that great walking music
pdclassicdvds: yes no music
Rush: CC’s departure scene here was recycled from “CC in the Secret Service.”
Godwinshelley2: They use that walk in another movie with very exciting music – for no apparent reason
Rush: Chan recalls an “undocumented” case….
Hawaii_Steve: Stock footage from ‘Secret Service’. Note how Chan’s hat changes.
Louise: Great double exposure
Godwinshelley2: Oh no – another “badly burned” bandaged actor
Louise: another plastic surgery
pdclassicdvds: Is this the Wax Museum
Atomant: lol
HonoluLou: Watch out
Rush: The bombing Chan referred to happened on October 14, 1937.
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Mike n Rachel in DC: Steve McBierney is under those bandages
Rush: CD!
Godwinshelley2: nice back projection
Rush: WELCOME!
pdclassicdvds: I am not guilty but I will kill you. lol
Cdirus: Hi guys!
Rush: We will get you situated in our film!
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Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey CD
Rush: Poor Dona…
HonoluLou: Hi CD
Mike n Rachel in DC: 10:40
Rush: 10:45
Matt1: Hello CD!
Cdirus: Thanks Mike and Rush
Cdirus: Hi Matt!
Rush: 11:10…
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Rush: DV!
Rush: Hello, and WELCOME!
Cdirus: I am a little ahead but that’s ok
Cdirus: Hi Dan!
Rush: We are nearing 12 minutes into our movie…
Dona has joined this room
danventure: TY
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey Dan.
Rush: Dona, I am sorry you are having so many troubles tonight!
Matt1: wb Dona
Mike n Rachel in DC: BTW: Radium is highly toxic
danventure: And thanks for the email–jogged my memory for tonight!
Matt1: Hello Dan!
Rush: BB and Tommy plan the perfect bank heist!
HonoluLou: OK, Charlie saves the day…again
Rush: Dona, Lou had similar troubles tonight while he was using a split screen.
Rush: That may help you…
Rush: 13:20
Atomant: Where’s your presidential Warrant now buddy ?
Dona: I have the movie on the tv. no split screen but I have had computer issues.
danventure: CC’s smile always seems so mischievous…
Rush: AH..okay…
Rush: Agreed, DV!
HonoluLou: Dona, same here DVD and chat online.
pdclassicdvds: Black hair with white streak.
HonoluLou: Does Charlie have a cold?
Rush: Not THAT unusual.
Rush: Sounds like he might have been recovering from a cold…
pdclassicdvds: but they are dead. lol
HonoluLou: Yes, Ms. Web, Charlie Chan!
Rush: “Majorette” dress design…
Louise: She looks like she is growing a tree on her chest
Godwinshelley2: The drum-majorette suit
Atomant: Yes Rush lol
Rush: 🙂
Cdirus: I never did like her dress
HonoluLou: Rush, haha. I’d never have noticedd
pdclassicdvds: nice voice. I bet she did radio
Rush: Nice vault.
Godwinshelley2: I picture it either Red with gold or Royal Blue with Gold
Hawaii_Steve: Never trust a blonde with shoulder from Joan Crawford.
Rush: Must have filmed at an actual bank to get that!
Rush: (Geiger counter)
Rush: Steve: 🙂
Hawaii_Steve: shoulder pads borrowed from J. C.
Louise: We had a vault like that in our basement of a house outside Philly. Possible bootleg storage?
HonoluLou: We have a Bar in Cleveland that is in a bank vault!
pdclassicdvds: Chan is going to have some beef stew
Louise:
HonoluLou: PD haha
Godwinshelley2: Again – fancy décor, wallpaper, shelves for a place called a “coffee shop”
danventure: Wow, Louise, that would have been some basement!
Louise: It was creepy
HonoluLou: Was that Dorothy?
Louise: that image is so cool looking
HonoluLou: Don’t mess with the Chan, Babe!
Rush: Chan switched to “serious mode” there!
Cdirus: what would all the noir movies do without blinds?
danventure: Cute…not the word I was thinking of…
Dona: apex
pdclassicdvds: He is cute isnt he?
Mike n Rachel in DC: She must like Asian men…
Rush: Great question, CD!
Cdirus: They add so much to the atmosphere of the movies.
Rush: The best defense is a good flirtation, as we may see…
HonoluLou: So true CD.
Rush: Yes, CD.
Rush: Nice shot here.
Louise: Chum
HonoluLou: Everyone knows, Charlie Chan!
Louise: Charlie Chum!
Rush: 🙂
pdclassicdvds: They are using the hot lamp
HonoluLou: Mr. Rogers? Is he in this one, too?
Dona: lol
Rush: It seems we may be in his neighborhood…
pdclassicdvds: Just find his sweater and you will find him
HonoluLou: Haha.
danventure: Carries around his filing cabinet in his pocket?
danventure: Lucky to have receipts and notes there…
Rush: Unusual way to get a date, courtesy of Mr. Chan!
HonoluLou: Steve, nice security uniform, aye?
Atomant: Great Idea Rush, dating addon to your site.
pdclassicdvds: Important personal matters????
Mike n Rachel in DC: LOL
Rush: Interesting hat…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Looks like a cake.
Godwinshelley2: Like she is wearing her dessert on her head
HonoluLou: She’s GREAT!
Rush: Homage to Buster Keaton?
pdclassicdvds: What a wonderful couple
Atomant: Little Bo peep
Mike n Rachel in DC: Baaaa
Rush: Good lines coming…
HonoluLou: Haha, I’m crackin up here
HonoluLou: Move over Harvey Weinstein!
danventure: CC’s new sideline as matchmaker.
Rush: Today, he’s be locked up!
Hawaii_Steve: Fresh fella.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Kiss-proof veil
HonoluLou: How can he see her behind that veil?
Rush: Looking to catch a certain fish…
HonoluLou: Very Aluring.
Louise: there are lovebirds in most Chan movies
Rush: “Or DO they…?”
Rush: Cute.
HonoluLou: I’ll bet he’s mincemeat. The other guard.
Rush: They WERE quick!
Atomant: Not quick enough
Rush: Hint, hint…
HonoluLou: Rush, your quote!
pdclassicdvds: Doesn’t look good
Louise: No, you turn here…
Rush: “No YOU turn!”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Love the “no U turn” skit
Dona: lol
pdclassicdvds: Who’s On First?
Rush: Sometines this scene comes to mind when I AM making a U-Turn!
HonoluLou: Get your damn…
Louise: No one touches the great Chan
Rush: (Wink)
pdclassicdvds: the hot lamp will be used
HonoluLou: Wonder if they have Elvis or Sinatra records?
pdclassicdvds: Come on BB
Louise: Paul revere?
pdclassicdvds: Paul Revere lol
Mike n Rachel in DC: I’m Birmingham, I ain’t Paul Revere
HonoluLou: BB was in 15 Chan films. I counted them the other day.
Atomant: I wonder what 1,2,3 and 4 were
Rush: “Eager beaver routing number 5…”
Godwinshelley2: Now they sound like the Bowery boys with their “routines”
Louise: so silly
Rush: Paging Leo Gorcey….
pdclassicdvds: Are you kidding me
Louise: Yes GS
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HonoluLou: Ah, the sewers. They were so clean back in the day!
danventure: Glad the bad guys are deaf as a post
pdclassicdvds: Tommy Tommy Tommy
HonoluLou: Towmy
Mike n Rachel in DC: And well-lit, Lou
Rush: Yes, Lou!
danventure: Sewers were probably too new…
Rush: That Louisiana accent!
Louise: Great low light photography
Rush: yes, Louise.
HonoluLou: yes, Louise. Nice.
pdclassicdvds: He is in love with her too
HonoluLou: The Guard!
Rush: Notice the number of elevators we see in the Monogram Chan movies?
HonoluLou: Nice head/hand move BB
Atomant: with working floors
Rush: Poor BB…
Matt1:
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Mike n Rachel in DC: BB excels at this sort of thing.
Rush: Yes, M/R.
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Louise: Think of how much more interesting the Chan movies are because of these odd settings like in the sewer
Rush: WB, again, Dona!
pdclassicdvds: Would you call that a cameo for the dead man?
HonoluLou: Good point, Louise.
Rush: You win the perseverance award tonight!
Rush: Louise, that’s a good point.
pdclassicdvds: Must be the beef stew
HonoluLou: The coffee shop! Maybe it’s the stew?
Rush: Joe’s Coffee Shop can be renamed “The Cobra’s Den.”
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Rush: “I am ready, but yiou still have few years to go.”
HonoluLou: A good one.
Rush: (you)
Atomant: Where is other man ?
Rush: Yes, AA! That one was heard in another film!
Atomant: 🙂 shadows over Chinatown I think
HonoluLou: Ah, the Postman on holiday!
Rush: YES, Lou!
Rush: And, your September issue is in the works?
Louise: Pop!
HonoluLou: Yes Rush, it’s in final draft as we watch 🙂
Rush: All right!
Louise: Back down we go
Paul M: yeah, we mailmen know everything
Louise: You Paul?
HonoluLou: Yes, you too?
Paul M: <—–Mailman
Hawaii_Steve: Honorable letter carrier given credit from honorable detective.
HonoluLou: A most worth profession. Like Santa at Christmas.
Rush: https://thepostmanonholidayhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/2018-newsletter-master.1.pdf
Rush: CC’s hat is dented.
pdclassicdvds: emily Post
Rush: “Police do not read Emily Post.”
Louise: Don’t read Emily Post!
Paul M: remembered when Moe told Curly to “mind your Emily Post”
Rush: Jan Van Horn!
Louise: Jan the Horn
Louise: TYSM
Rush: A “new toot out of old Horn.”
Atomant: 🙂
HonoluLou: Timing is everything.
Louise: slightly illegal!
pdclassicdvds: Charlie Chan wouldn’t do well in Law and Order shows.
Cdirus: I wouldn’t be tasting anything on that table.
Louise: so true, pd
danventure: I like CC’s “Murder is more illegal”
HonoluLou: CD, how did you know he’d taste it?
Rush: “Pentalite.”
Atomant: It’s all National Security related
HonoluLou: That is a strange device!
Cdirus: Looked like he dipped his finger into someting and put it in his mouth.
Louise: secret device…doorknob
Rush: “Hello.”
Cdirus: Like detectives always do on TV.
HonoluLou: She sounds like Judy Garland, yes?
Rush: She does not act surprised.
Rush: Lou, yes, she does!
Atomant: Shes doesn’t seem to think he’s so cute now
HonoluLou: HaHa.
Matt1:
Rush: (Boing…)
HonoluLou: Whoah!
Louise: ouch ouch ouch
Rush: Yes!
Godwinshelley2: Man they hate to give back change
Rush: 🙂
Atomant: Haha
Rush: She would have to be an accessory to murder.
pdclassicdvds: Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive
Rush: Yes, PD!
HonoluLou: Nice PD.
Louise: A Trap!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Variation on an earlier aphorism.
Rush: But not THE Trap!
Louise: sitting assistants
Atomant: not our next Moview ?
Rush: Next week: “The Red Dragon”
HonoluLou: Is that the last Chan movie, Rush?
Rush: That’s the last film in the series, yes.
HonoluLou: TXS.
Rush: YAW.
Rush: 🙂
danventure: Which series Rush?
Rush: The Charlie Chan film series, spanning 1931 until 1949.
Atomant: I thought the Trap was the last one ?
Rush: The first in the series was “CC Carries On,” and the final entry was “The Trap.”
Atomant: ok
HonoluLou: Ah so, my mistake.
pdclassicdvds: Will the lost Chan films ever show up?
Rush: We are now viewing the Monogram phase of the Chan film series.
HonoluLou: OK, got it.
Rush: PD, that is the question of the ages…
Rush: (At least for Chan fans!)
Rush: One can never tell.
pdclassicdvds: Maybe Jackie Gleason had them in his vaults?
Rush: There could be a hidden, forgotten copie of one or more someplace.
Rush: The world is big!
Louise: Bang!
Rush: BOOM!!!
Louise: Boom!
HonoluLou: POW
pdclassicdvds: Those crooks are not too smart
Rush: Agreed!
Godwinshelley2: I have the books – but have only cruised one for notes on SF Chinatown – does Charlie have a multitude of children in the books?
HonoluLou: The “you know what” is gonna hit the fan, when he blasts the sewer!
Rush: TRAPPED!
HonoluLou: GS, Charlie has 11 Children in the novels.
danventure: Sure glad that was soft concrete!
pdclassicdvds: SOS
Rush: Samuel F.B. Morse saves the day!
Rush: A lengthy message from CC…
Godwinshelley2: Why say “apparently” when doing morse code?
Godwinshelley2: Just say what you need
pdclassicdvds: How did he send such a long message????
Rush: Yes!
Rush: “We are trapped in sewer…HELP!”
pdclassicdvds: Please save Charlie. PLEASE!!!
Godwinshelley2: Or is it like shorthand where you drop a lot of the vowels
HonoluLou: 5:00 minutes left 🙁
Louise: Bang Bang
Rush: hWoosh…BOOM!!!!!
Louise: POW!
Godwinshelley2: Stay tuned for next week!!
Godwinshelley2: Looks like a cliffhanger ending
Rush: Looks like pumice stones.
HonoluLou: If anyone is interested in celebrating E.D.B’s birthday today:
Godwinshelley2: Nice
Rush: It the address I gave earlier defunct, Lou?
Louise: always a surprise when the cop is the bad guy
HonoluLou: Rush, yes that was the newsletter address your had on your site, no worries 🙂
Atomant: Jonesy
Rush: AH! I’ll make the change tonight.
Rush: Yes, AA!
Atomant: Port side catch
Rush: Yes, AA! Nice catch!
Rush: (Boing…)
Atomant: 🙂
HonoluLou: Owch!
Rush: The DOUBLE cobra fangs!
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Godwinshelley2: Here let me hand it over –
Rush: Careful when handing it over!
Mike n Rachel in DC: No U turn!
HonoluLou: Go to Whoosgow.
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Rush: (Dolphin…)
Rush: 🙂
Mike n Rachel in DC: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: Nice smirke
Rush: THE END…
Matt1:
Mike n Rachel in DC:
pdclassicdvds: You have to love those Chan movies.
Rush: (Applause)
danventure: They work too hard for that gag.
Atomant: Good Movie
Louise: Yay!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Another great one folks.
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Rush: Another good one watched!
Mike n Rachel in DC: This is one of my favorite “Monograms”
HonoluLou: It was nice celebrating with you all. Ciao,from CLE. Lou
Mike n Rachel in DC: (Rach too…)
Hawaii_Steve: Very good for a Monogram.
Rush: Again, next week: “The Red Dragon”
Paul M: i kindalike thisone
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good to see you Lou
danventure: TY
Hawaii_Steve: See you soon Lou.
pdclassicdvds: Goodnight everyone. Next Monday I hope. take care.
Matt1: Good night folks and I’ll see you again in two weeks
Mike n Rachel in DC: Red Dragon? Wow.
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Louise: Fun crowd tonight
Rush: That was my favorite monogram Chan film.
Godwinshelley2: Nice to have everyone here! Have a great week
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good night all…hope to see y’all on Labor Day!
Rush: I thank you ALL….
Rush: as always!
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Atomant: Good night to all, Have a great week !!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Thanks to you, Rush. Another good one for the books.
Rush: Thank you (so much!) for a GREAT evening!
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Hawaii_Steve: I don’t remember seeing that one. It held my interest. Everybody was on the mark.
Cdirus: Night all! See you next week!
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Rush: I will be “logging” this one into our chat collection tonight.
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Rush: take care…
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Rush: have a good night…
Rush: And a wonderful week!
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Rush: Take care, steve!
Hawaii_Steve: Good times Rush. Thank you so much.
Rush: One of these days, we will need to see you on your new side of the island!
Rush: Kailua is a great place!
Hawaii_Steve: Looking forward to it. Take care. Say ‘aloha’ to wife and kids for me.
Rush: And, as we know…what a NICE beach!
Rush: Will do, Steve!
Rush: Great to “see” you tonight!
Hawaii_Steve: Good night.
Rush: Good night!
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