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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543457640
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Running Time: 374 minutes
Sales Rank: 7360
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1937
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Product Description:
Volume three of the Charlie Chan Collection series includes three feature-length films as well as tons of bonus material including documentaries about the artist. The films include 1936's CHARLIE CHAN'S SECRET 1937's CHARLIE CHAN ON BROADWAY 1937's CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CARLO 1931's CHARLIE CHAN: THE BLACK CAMEL and much more.System Requirements:TRT: 238 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 024543457640 Manufacturer No: 2245764
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'Hollywood is famous furnisher of mysteries,' observes the honorable Honolulu detective, Charlie Chan, in The Black Camel. And few cinematic sleuths are as renowned or beloved as Chan. As the chief of police proclaims in Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, 'All the world knows of Charlie Chan.' For devotees of Earl Derr Biggers' literary creation, this is an essential boxed set that marks the beginnings and the end of the franchise's Warner Oland golden era. In addition to vintage treats such as The Black Camel (1931), the earliest known-existing Chan film to star Oland as the iconic sleuth, it also contains intriguing extras, including the 1929 film Behind the Curtain, which features E.L. Park as Chan in this character's first (albeit fleeting) screen appearance in a Fox film (and, like butler Jeeves' mere one-sentence walk-on in the P.G. Wodehouse short story 'Extricating Young Gussie,' it is a most inauspicious beginning for such a towering figure in popular culture).
The Swedish-born Oland portrayed Chan in 16 films. This set includes his last two as Chan before his untimely death in 1938, Monte Carlo and Charlie Chan on Broadway, both released in 1937. Give your regards to Broadway, in which a dame 'still hot enough to blister' is murdered over an incriminating diary. This set also includes the eerie Charlie Chan's Secret (1936). The films are a bit creaky, but that's part of the fun. Each has its charms and delights, from the rat-a-tat New York slang that baffles Chan in Broadway to his signature aphorisms that range from the sage ('Though loved one seem to be taken away, remain always near') to the puzzling ('Sometimes very difficult to pick up pumpkin with one finger'). Keye Luke provides comic relief as enthusiastic No. 1 son in Monte Carlo and Broadway. Camel features Robert Young in his official screen debut and Bela Lugosi, fresh from Dracula, as a sinister mystic with too much influence on an actress with a skeleton in her closet. The audio commentaries on Camel and Secret are efficient and informative (did you know that Goldfinger villain Odd Job was styled on Chan's look?). Other entertaining segments unearth Oland's career, Chan's influence on detective fiction, and those 'Chan-isms.' Also fascinating is a re-creation of Charlie Chan's Chance, one of four lost Oland/Chan films. For those who have yet to make Charlie's acquaintance, this Chan-tastic collection is an excellent introduction. As one admiring cop states in Broadway, 'You just think you have (met a detective). Now, go and meet Charlie Chan.' --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Charlie Chan Vol 3
If you like the series you will enjoy this continuation.
One of the pluses for me was the actual scenery shot in cities like Honolulu and San Francisco during the 1930's.
Rating: - The uncredited music in the Black Camel
Most everything that needs to have been said has been except for the commentary track on the Black Camel which fails to make any mention of the beautiful hawaiian steel guitar music used in several points of the film which is devoid of music otherwise. I have heard that this contribution was from the greatest steel guitarist of them all who is Sol Hoopii. Sol was in big demand in Hollywood in the 20' and 30's as musical director, performer, actor, and as a talent scout for Hawaiian and polynesian themed movies. I marvel at the fact that the two male commentators were watching the complete movie and were not at all moved by the shear beauty of Sol's music to even make any comment about it. This film shot on location in Hawaii with a true son of Hawaii furnishing the slide steel guitar music is as good and as closed as it ever gets.
Rating:  - defective recording
I own a high end Onkio DVD player. One of the 4 DVDs refuses to play on my player.
Rating:  - Dad loves these movies.
My father has been a fan of Charlie Chan since he was a boy. These movies have brought back fond memories of his childhood. I found it interesting to see the all star co-stars in these movies. For any Charlie fan, these are must have movies.
Rating: - Charlie Chan Collection, Volume 3
Though Swedish, Warner Oland played Chinese detective Charlie Chan to perfection. As with the other volumes in this series, these films are fun to watch again and again.
I highly recommend this collection of films.
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