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Without the co-feature, Dead Men Tell, the show would have a hard time climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...
...John Olan Horne, Lowell, Massachusetts--Lowell High School...
...Best actress: Luise Rainer as the Chinese wife, Olan, in The Good Earth...
...land and his dependence upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter hours The Good Earth runs, Actress Rainer manages to make her every thought...
...showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back up the valley. Back to the sing-song house goes Lotus. Back to the land goes Wang. Back to Olan, just in time, go the pearls...