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...Charlie Chan in Paris," with Warner Oland and a mediocre supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
Charlie Chan in Paris (Fox). "Perfect case like perfect doughnut-has hole." With this convenient hypothesis to work from, it is no trouble at all for famed Detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) to find out who threw a knife at a dancer named Nardi, who killed an unscrupulous bank "cashier, what connection both have with the forged bonds and the man who walks with a crutch. Abetted by his grinning son Lee Chan, he chivalrously establishes the innocence of pretty Yvette Lamartine, dispenses telegraphic proverbs for the benefit of a stupid confrere...
...Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...
Most famed contemporary cinema performer of Oriental roles, Warner Oland was born in Umea, Sweden, reared in Boston. He arrived at his current specialty after a long stage career in Ibsen and Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although...
Invading the realms of Sherlock Holmes, Warner Oland, as the general Chinese detective, Charlie Chan, transfers the scene of his activities to London in the current features at the R.K.O. Boston, entitled "Charlie Chan in London." In murder mysteries the important feature is the story and this time it is only a fair one, suffering from a superabundance of trite tricks of the trade such as too-obvious attempts to make everybody seem to be the criminal. Having just finished the famous (?) Barstow case the philosophic Mr. Chan is preparing to return to China and the numerous little Chans when...