Word: oland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend of mine once remarked, as Electric Uncle George Fennell introduced old Chucko on Five All Night: "If I had a drop of Oriental blood in me, these movies would really be offensive." As you ponder that statement and wonder about your own latent racism, remember that Warner Oland was one of five men to play Chan, none of whom possessed that requisite drop of blood, and none of whom probably thought of being offended by the nonsense in which they were involved. Channel...
...last film does, of course, touch on the economics of Miss West and her jewels-this is the film version of her stage success Diamond Lil. And for that matter, there is some doubt about the "seriousness" of Shanghai Express, especially with such lines as that of Warner Oland's (playing the Oriental bandit-chieftain): "The white woman stays with...
...flirt in Morocco with everything in trousers (and sometimes those in skirts, when she herself is wearing white-tie-and-tails), but in the end, she follows Gary Cooper off into the desert still wearing her stiletto heels. Again, in Shanghai Express, she gives herself to Warner Oland only to save Clive Brooks' life-and ends up getting Brooks after...