Charlie Chan night...

I have many of the Charlie Chan movies, from the 30s and 40s, and I'm going to go through them all, again. I've seen most several times, each, but still like to watch them. My favorites are Charlie Chan at the Opera, ...in Egypt, ...at the Olympics, and ...in Panama.

Warner Oland was the best one. He was Swedish but had some Mongolian ancestry so had a vaguely Asian aspect to his face. I don't have his first one, Charlie Chan Carries On, nor have I seen it. It's considered lost, but there's a Spanish version, apparently. I need to track it down. See how good my Spanish is...except they used a Spanish actor for Charlie Chan, so it may not really count.

I used to watch these on Saturdays, as a boy at my grandmother's. Black and white console TV in the same ratio so they lost nothing when I finally got them on VHS...then DVD. Sydney Toler was okay as Chan. Just not as warm as Oland. And I didn't like the Roland Winters ones; they were cheesy and done without thought.

There was one version from about 1929 or 1930 where Charlie Chan was a secondary character in San Francisco who helped the white British detective catch a killer before he killed the only witness against him. It was quite violent, but it also had images of San Francisco's streets at that time and was, overall, quite good. But I can't remember the title and my search is coming up blank, so far,.

A lot of today was spent pulling together paperwork and filling in forms for my meeting on Monday with the bankruptcy lawyer. It's a free consultation to see if I really qualify. Who knows how it will turn out.