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Director James Tinling’s 1935 Charlie Chan in Shanghai is the ninth Charlie Chan film produced by 20th Century Fox with the title character played by Warner Oland. Charlie Chan heads for Shanghai on the request of the US […]
Alas, director Eugene Forde’s 1938 thriller Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is Warner Oland’s last Chan adventure, and it is hard to get excited about its plot concerning missing metallurgic bonds while Chan is on […]
‘Oh gee, Pop, when are we going to arrest somebody?’ asks Charlie Chan (Warner Oland)’s jumping-jack Number One Son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke). Has a prize horse kicked to death its rich owner just before […]
‘Mr Hardy fell on his leg and was laid up for two months. Mr Laurel fell on his head and hadn’t felt better in years.’ Director James Parrott’s 1932 Hal Roach Studios black and white […]
Director Menahem Golan’s 1974 true crime Israeli-American film Lepke is a typically Seventies violent gangster movie in the Thirties Warner Bros-style, with an inspired performance by Tony Curtis, cast against type, giving an interesting account […]
Director Amy Heckerling’s 1984 comedy Johnny Dangerously stars Michael Keaton, who leads an amiable cast in a Thirties gangster spoof that falls slightly short of the target but still is amusing a lot of the […]
Director John Schlesinger’s 1975 drama The Day of the Locust stars William Atherton as Tod Hackett, an art director in the Hollywood of the 1930s who is heading for a nervous breakdown because of all […]