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| Inspector Carr | Aug 21 2007, 02:21 PM Post #91 |
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By the way no mention in the bonus material containing that public service announcement made by Oland as Charlie Chan for a referendum vote in Pennsylvania in 1934 (?) |
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| Sgt Saturn | Apr 30 2009, 11:15 AM Post #92 |
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Charlie Chan at the Opera bubbled top the top of my Netflix queue recently. I rather liked it. Boris Karloff plays a demented opera singer. He lip-syncs well -- his many talents probably did not extend to operatic baritone; although, Hollywood was known to dub the singing for folks who could have done it themselves. Yes, the movie contains the obligatory Frankenstein reference. A Fu Manchu reference would have been more fun as both Karloff and Oland had played the insidious doctor. Two Fu Manchu 
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| CliffClaven | Apr 30 2009, 01:14 PM Post #93 |
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I somehow recall CC at the Opera as the one where Number One Son (Keye Luke) officially aged backward. In his first appearance in CC in Singapore he was on a business trip when he met papa Charlie. Luke, for all his comic Watsonisms, is clearly a capable adult, mature enough to hold a job involving world travel. After that, the character became more hormonal and was gradually redefined as a teenager, living at home and wrangling advances on his allowance. It was in the opera film that a bunch of young guys were introduced as his fraternity brothers, strongly suggesting he was still in college. Fortunately, Luke and Oland pulled it off. It's like the Sherlock Holmes films in reverse. In the books Holmes and Watson are both comparatively young men, Watson a recent war veteran. But in the films Nigel Bruce plays Watson as a dithering Old Boy next to Basil Rathbone's middle-aged Holmes (although Bruce was actually a year younger than Rathbone). And I think they actually made Watson look older when Universal turned Holmes into a series. |
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