The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for September 14, 2020
Feature:
Shadows Over Chinatown
Extra:
Secret Agent X-9 (Chapter 11)
Participants:
DanVenture
Dona
Godwinshelley3
Jake
Louise
Matt1
Rush
shadow of fay angel
tenman
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Rush:
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Matt1: Hello Rush!
Rush: Hi,Matt!
Rush: I was just on the phone with Virginia.
Matt1: Hope all is well out there
Rush: Sorry!
Matt1: VERY nice….Hope she is well?
Rush: HOT and SMOKEY out where I live.
Matt1: The pics I’ve seen are quite sad
Rush: She sounds like she always does: happy and feisty!
Matt1: Miss her interaction here
Rush: Yes, regarding the photos.
Rush: A problem that is never mentioned in the “news” however, is that there are such environmental restrictions against thiining forests, that when a fire does happen, it is bigger than it might be otherwise!
Matt1: That’s been a issue for years in CA, no?
Rush: Yes.
Rush: Crazy here.
Rush: Oh, well.
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Matt1: You’ll be moving soon enough
Matt1: Hello Ten!
Rush: We have been having “Kryptonesque” sunsets.
Rush: Hello, TM!
Rush: WELCOME!
tenman: Hey!
Rush: Happy Monday!
Matt1: I saw a pic in San Fran overlooking GG birdge…Wild1
tenman: Just finished a zoom meeting, now this
Rush: I hope that this will rival the zoom meeting on the scale of fun!
Matt1: Yes!
Rush: Good one tonight: “Shadows Over Chinatown.”
Rush: Sadly, though, it is NOT available online!
Rush: LOTS of great Birmingham Brown moments in this one.
Matt1: Chan gets shot too?
Rush: YES!
Rush: “TIME” is on his side, though!
Matt1: Yes!
Rush: 🙂
Matt1: Well played!
Rush: Well…after 20 years of these…
Rush: 🙂
Rush: How has the weather been in your areas?
Rush: Is Fall starting to slip in the door?
Matt1: Sally was off the coast yesterday and today, so rainy and windy here in FL
Matt1: lol, nooooooo
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Tropical stuff, Matt?
Matt1: Yes, now a hurricane heading for NOLA
Rush: TM, do you have tonight’s movie on DVD?
Rush: That’s what I thought!
tenman: Yes, it’s in the PS4 already. THe serial is ready on the tv now via Roku Youtube
Rush: For the next two weeks, we complete the Toler Chan films.
Rush: Then, to start off October, we will be watching two episodes from “The New Adventures of Charlie Chan.”
Matt1: Time flies….Winters is on deck!
Rush: Very good, TM…
Rush: YES!
Matt1: COVID has delayed a lot, but not Chan nights!
Matt1: I’m cued here, btw
Rush: I am reading “The House Without a Key,” and I can tell that Winters’ Chan is in some ways more, in dialogue, like the Chan in the books.
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tenman: I’ve never seent eh Winters Chans.
Matt1: Hello Angel!
shadow of foxy angel: Greetings fellow mirthlings!
Rush: WELCOME “SOFA”!
shadow of foxy angel: Hey tenman! And curmudgeons!
Rush: Greetings to YOU!
Rush: And…fox, of course!
shadow of foxy angel: “SOFA”! We like that!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: I was wondering if that might have been planned, Angel!
shadow of foxy angel: Fox is always about. When you think you’re safe, the Fox Network is passing data to Inspector Duff. Or passing duff to Inspector Data.
tenman: How do?
Rush: Let’s say…2 1/2 minutes till the serial…
Rush: TWO minutes….
shadow of foxy angel: As a Firesign Theater character once said, “How do you do WHAT?” I always liked that. We always liked that. Imperial “we” here. I had my eye on an Imperial, as Chrissie Hynde once sang.
Rush: Got me, angel!
Rush: 60 seconds…
shadow of foxy angel: We’re gonna P.D., that is, pipe down, for X-9!!
Rush: One eye on clock…other on your texts!
Rush: 30 seconds…
Rush: 25…
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15…
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: Sorry….my “GO” didn’t GO…
Matt1: Hello?
Rush: I hpe you all started!
Matt1: Weeeeeeeeeee!
tenman: just now
shadow of foxy angel: I wondered!At 0:40 now’
Rush: YES.
Rush: 60 seconds in now.
shadow of foxy angel: I’m paused at 1:20 to catch up.
shadow of foxy angel: Now (1:30)
Rush: we are at 2:00
Rush: Should be anyway….again…sorry!
shadow of foxy angel: Nice HATS!!
Rush: Yes!
shadow of foxy angel: Men Without Hats would have been severely limited in Hollywood’s heyday,
Rush: And…pith helmits!
shadow of foxy angel: Not an explanation, but an excuse.
shadow of foxy angel: Pith helmeth are tho mithunderthtood.
Rush: Getting the water out of his ears.
Rush: 🙂
shadow of foxy angel: Water and Walter.
shadow of foxy angel: She stole that dress from the Little Dutch Boy.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: “Hair Doctor”
shadow of foxy angel: Did Lloyd Bridges find all those nautical roles, or did they find him?
Rush: Fixes dry, frizzy hair.
shadow of foxy angel: I picture Edgar Buchanan in this scene.
shadow of foxy angel: She doesn’t take the hangers out of her blouses before she puts them on, does she?
Rush: !!!
shadow of foxy angel: That’s “Dr. Surgeon”. “Harold” is my given name.
shadow of foxy angel: *tin can*?
Rush: Dr. Harold is on a LOOOOONNNG house call.
shadow of foxy angel: They could each put a billiard ball on one of her shoulders & the game would still be a draw in 1958.
shadow of foxy angel: Is this music a Star Wars March outtake, or a cut from Plan 9?
Rush: Well…she COULD be the first woman quarterback on the Shadow Island Bruisers!
shadow of foxy angel: He’s from the Headshrinkers’. Returning weekly.
shadow of foxy angel: IMPEACH X-9!!
Rush: Cy “CY” ting.
shadow of foxy angel: Rush: The Bruisers could do VERY well THIS year!
Rush: Meanwhile….at sea.
shadow of foxy angel: The sea. The wet man’s Ranch.
shadow of foxy angel: This group SORELY TESTS the Six Degrees precepts.
Rush: “Waving fields of….waves.”
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Matt1: Hello Dan!
shadow of foxy angel: DV!!! Pull up a mosslog!
Rush: WELCOME, DV!
Rush: How are you tonight?
DanVenture: Evening! I see we have just a few stalwart Chan-Fans tonight.
shadow of foxy angel: How does one get to be a Dowager Empress, anyway?
DanVenture: I am happy to say still healthy.
shadow of foxy angel: Dan, WE’RE ALL stalled warts.
Rush: GREAT “lights-out” shot!
shadow of foxy angel: OH! HE gets HIS island RESTORED. SOME people have the “pull”, the rest of us carry our islands from year to year…
DanVenture: LOL Shadow!
Rush: Angel: 🙂
shadow of foxy angel: I wonder if SHADOW Island has Murder HORNETS?
Rush: Samurai sword…itching for “action.”
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Rush: GS!
Rush: Good evening!
shadow of foxy angel: ACTION itching for Samurai! Speaking of whom: GS!!!!!
Godwinshelley3: Hello from Hoosierlandia
Rush: On trhe phone…from Indiana!
shadow of foxy angel: “What am i, chopped tofu?”
Rush: Happy to have you here if only for a little while!
Rush: How are your mom and dad tonight?
Godwinshelley3: Yes indeed – AND mom got reimbursed by Long Term Care today – almost 2000$
Matt1: Hello GS!
Rush: WOW! Great news, GS!
Matt1: Very good news
Godwinshelley3: They are fine – took mom to Eye dr in Indianapolis
Rush: Yes?
Godwinshelley3: Yeah I’ve been working on that money since March!!
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Rush: Grenade explodes…
Rush: THE END….
Godwinshelley3: Mom has Macular Degeneration and has to get special treatment once a month
Rush: of part 11.
Matt1: <clap-clap>
Rush: (Applause…)
Rush: How’s she doing with that, GS.
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Rush: Louise!
Matt1: Hello Louise!
Louise: Greetings Chan Clan!
Rush: WELCOME!
Godwinshelley3: I waited outside and made 6 phone calls while I waited – all calls were for my folks
Rush: You are a great help to them, and I know that they are very thankful!
Louise: Sorry I missed last week: I didn’t even know it was a Monday because of the holiday!
Rush: AH!
Rush: That happens!
Rush: I think a few others did that, too!
Rush: Tonight…
Rush: “Shadows Over Chinatown”
Godwinshelley3: Mom In much better spirits and Dad is plugging along- though he had too much coffee yesterday and didn’t sleep and now thinks today is Tuesday
Rush: NO coffee tonight!
Rush: One way to stop time, I suppose!
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Rush: SEVEN minutes to go…
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Louise: CUED and ready to go
Rush: WELCOME….DONA!
Dona: Hello Everyone!
Rush: I need to do likewise….
Dona: Ready to go here.
Godwinshelley3: I’ve been putting decaf in his instant regular coffee containers – but we ate out yesterday for lunch and he had 3 mugs of high test!
Matt1: Cued!
Godwinshelley3: I’m without dvds here – just dropped in to say we are doing fine in the Midwest
Rush: GS…
Rush: Again….happy to have you drop in!
Louise: Nice to see you GS
Dona: We will miss you GS
Matt1: Have a good trip
Rush: have a good visit with your parents!
Godwinshelley3: Enjoy for me!!
Rush: Please say hello from ALL of us!
Godwinshelley3: Night all
Dona: Bye!
Rush: Good night, GS!
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Rush: Take care.
Louise: Are we going to have a lot of “tin cans” tinight?
Rush: 3 minutes to go….
Matt1: Chat room only allows me so many!
Rush: There will be a can or two!
Louise: Choose carefully, Matt!
Rush: Matt will be ready!
Matt1: My best Indy
Rush: TWO minutes…
Rush: 90 seconds…
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!!!
Matt1: <GONG>
Louise: here we go
Rush: Title and music…
Rush: Credits…
Rush: We will see this figure later in the movie!
Louise: cool statue
Rush: The many-armed figure.
Rush: TYSM…nice GONG!
Rush: The City by the Bay….
Louise: Busy city music
Rush: Hall of Justice….
Rush: Bureau of Missing Persons.
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Louise: Fear of reality
Rush: Sort of a newsreel-style explanation of a Missing Persons Bureau.
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Matt1: wb SOFA
Louise: Perry White
Rush: Oh….THAT headline will cheer up those looking for a missing relative!
shadow of foxy angel: We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Rush: Yes, again, Louise!
Dona: Hi Angel
Rush: “Torso Murders”
Matt1: Roomy bus
Rush: Emmigrant Gap is a real location not too far from Lake Tahoe, along Highway 40.
shadow of foxy angel: Circuit-breaker broke just as the Fusillade was being introduced. Did they GET EVERYBODY?
Rush: Se the “US 40” sign?
Rush: Accurate.
shadow of foxy angel: Jayne Mansfield had a Torso and Moreso up until—
Louise: crabby people
Rush: YOW, Angel!
Rush: Missing items!
Louise: Charlie!!!
Matt1: Pop!
Rush: “That old number 13…”
Rush: CC SHOT!
Rush: SAVED by the watch!
shadow of foxy angel: Sorry to have to, but Fox & i are turning tail—we have JUST (6:30 this morning!) returned to this Boston outpost, FROM WHICH all our Chan DVD’s were removed, now reposing in Fortress North Carolina…
tenman: Birthday wttch!
Rush: Sorry, Angel!
Dona: oh dear
Rush: have a RESTFUL night at the fortress!
Rush: “We sure WILL!”
Rush: “Civvies”
shadow of foxy angel: …Lacking a means to view, we “yuan” and say See You Next Week!! (We are tired anyway from trip.) Don’t be “Peking” ahead!!
Rush: “Dangerous Money” next week!
Rush: BB’s cousin, Chattanooga in that one!
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Rush: CC does a favor here…
Rush: “Goods returned, crime prevented.”
Louise: I wouldn’t let this guy go
Rush: Yes, and I am not Charlie Chan, either, Louise!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Actual shot of the road across the Golden gate Bridge rear-projected.
Rush: “Continental Trailways”
Dona: I remember that Bus line
Rush: Me too!
Rush: This lady was in “The Black Camel”
Rush: Funny bit here!
Rush: “What?”
Rush: “New Orleans Trunk Murder”
Louise: Straggler?
Rush: I just found this on the Internet, regarding “Trunk Murders”…
Rush: The grim Times-Picayune article from October 28, 1927 is filed into a binder at the Williams Research Center of New Orleans. Headlined “Bodies Found in Trunks,” it tells the ghastly end of Theresa and Leonide “Lonie” Moity.
Louise: Ominous music starting
Rush: Yes.
Rush: “Dormatory”
Matt1: A lot of tin cans?
Rush: Only if they relate to our present case!
Matt1: Choose wisley, Matt
Rush: 🙂
Louise: True, Rush. We need limits
Rush: Indeed!
Louise: long handshake
Rush: Mary Gordon: Mrs. Conove
Rush: Mary Gordon was also in “The Black Camel”
Louise: She’s in a lot of movies
Rush: She also appeared as a Prison Matron in “CC in London.”
Dona: Very distinct voice
Rush: Yes.
Dona: I think I’ve seen her in other than CC movies
Rush: Yes.
Rush: She didn’t get it!
Rush: desert already!
Rush: (Dessert)
Louise: Babe
Louise: Ewwwww what a creep
Rush: $50….about 4750 today.
Rush: 750
Rush: Sorry!
Rush: Pop will pay later for the meal!
Rush: Joe’s Ice Cream parlor.
Dona: They don’t move very fast
Rush: Disguises!
Rush: That’s why CC refers to them as “sitting assistants”!
Louise: great disguise
Rush: Funny.
Dona: He carries it with him LOL
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Been waiting for the right moment to use it!
Rush: I collected “The Wit and Wisdom of Birmingham Brown” for this film and placed it at this site unter “Shadows Over Chinatown.”
Louise: Cool Rush
Dona: really short tie
Rush: It’s about time, right?
Rush: 🙂
Dona: is that way they wore them?
Rush: It seems so.
Matt1: <tin can>
Louise: teeny can
Rush: I recall BB’s tie being short in “Black magic.”
Rush: TYSM…Matt…
Dona: I don’t trust him
Rush: Wise, Dona!
Louise: Confusion
Rush: “C’mon. motor…don’t act like a balkin’ mule.”
Rush: Running joke in this one!
Dona: I know that voice
Louise: There was no reason for that scene other than it was fun
Rush: Recall this gentleman as Sheriff Mack?
Dona: I knew it was a sheriff just not which one
Rush: Sheriff Mack is one of the most colorful characters of the Monogram series, IMHO.
Louise: Mack was funny
Rush: Now…we make a visit to the escort bureau…
Rush: Delightful Muzac.
Louise: He does this while smiling
Rush: Changed her mind quickly.
Rush: Out of gas!
Louise: still sitting
Rush: BB got the motor to run, and he left it running so it would be ready to go!
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: As I said earlier, this one has LOTS of BB (and Jimmy) moments!
Rush: TYSM…Matt…
Louise: Glad BB is back after being away
Dona: Me too
Rush: Yes. However, he is missing next week.
Rush: Cousin Chattanooga takes his place.
Rush: In the curio shop!
Rush: Recall this figure from the titles portion?
Rush: You break it – you BUY it.
Louise: love this mirror scene
Rush: I have a feeling they let MM improvise here!
Rush: I like that little “jump” BB did just there!
Dona: He is very good at it
Rush: Yes!
Dona: It was great
Rush: Mary and Joe.
Rush: The TORSO!
Rush: Setting a trap!
Rush: “Never bait trap with wolf to catch wolf.”
Dona: I still don’t like him
Rush: Good intuition on your part!
Dona: bad choice
Rush: And…BB spilled the beans.
Louise: Like influenza epidemic!
Rush: Yes! And…NOTHING was closed down!
Rush: Message passed…and received!
Rush: See, Dona?
Rush: The mirror in the car was turned away from the camera.
Rush: An accessory!
Rush: To MURDER!
Rush: “Farmhand psychology”
Rush: The curio shop!
Louise: The drunk is back
Rush: 🙂
Rush: More than meets our collective eye, Louise!
Louise: I want to own a curio shop!
Rush: It could be fun, Louise!
Louise: ouch
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Hold on…Matt…
Rush: Nice move by CC there!
Dona: they leave him there to bleed
Rush: “Confusion Sez”
Rush: Yes, Louise!
Rush: (Dolphin)
Louise: “Dolphins”
Rush: 🙂
Rush: THE END.
Louise: We have the same memory, Rush
Rush: ion of another GOOD one!
Dona: Wasn’t that said by Barnum of Barnum adn Baily?
Matt1: <yee-haw>
Rush: Yes, Louise!
tenman: Night all!
Rush: Miss those sound effects…sigh…
Rush: k….
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Rush: “Dangerous Money.”
Jake: Hello 🙂
Dona: <YAY>
Matt1: Good night folks and have a great week!
Rush: As we sail to the South Seas with CC, Jimmy, and Chattanooga Brown!
Louise: Nite all
Jake: Hello>
Jake: ?*
Rush: Good night, Louise!
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Dona: Another good one Rush!
Louise: Jake, we are all going…
Rush: Hey!
Jake: Oh I just wanted to say Hi 🙂
Rush: JAKE!
Dona: Hi Jake
Rush: How are you!?
Jake: I’ve been pretty Good 🙂
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Dona: Goodnight All! See you next week.
Rush: Get your homework done?
Jake: I’m a sophomore now 🙂
Rush: How have you been, Jake?
Jake: No im just about to start 🙁
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Jake: Ive been pretty good 🙂
Rush: How’s high school this year…in spite of the weirdness!
Jake: Its been pretty good
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Rush: Good night, All
Rush: Take care….
Rush: have a happy….SAFE week!
DanVenture: til next time!
Rush: Yes, DV!
Rush: take care!
Rush: see you next week!
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