Word: channings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charlie Chan's Secret" is rather disappointing to a Charlie Chan fan. We are afraid it would be a kindness to retire the noted detective before he comes to an ignominious end. It seems as though, Warner Oland would understand Addison's feeling that he would rather kill Sir Roger than have someone else disgrace...
...small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little...
...speaking of the week's program at the Paramount and Fenway, in order to begin with a note of optimism, we have to describe the "second big hit" first. For Warner Oland's mystifying in "Charlie Chan's Secret" proves much more enticing than the rigmarole of "Coronado...
...almost agree with the Paramount's advance statement, which claims that Earl Derr Bigger's oriental sleuth as portrayed in the movies is rapidly taking his place by the lean side of Sherlock Holmes. Charlie Chan, spouting the cherished wisdom of the East, is rapidly becoming one of the screen's few lasting fabrications...
...trying to solve the crime before Charlie does; the reels are stacked against you. But just the same we predict that you will be making all sorts of fantastic guesses. For the picture absorbs you in spite of yourself. You'll probably even play so completely into Mr. Chan's hands as to reproach him when he's merely being clever...