Sidney Toler in "Charlie Chan in Honolulu" (1938) - feat. Philip Ahn & Paul Harvey скачать в хорошем качестве

Sidney Toler in "Charlie Chan in Honolulu" (1938) - feat. Philip Ahn & Paul Harvey

Detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) rushes to the hospital to be with his daughter (Frances Hoo) as she prepares to give birth to his first grandchild. While Charlie Chan waits at the hospital, his "number two" son, Jimmy (Sen Yung), intercepts a message intended for Charlie about a murder on board the freighter Susan B. Jennings. The freighter is on its way from Shanghai to Honolulu under the leadership of Captain Johnson (Robert Barrat). Jimmy wants to prove his investigative skills to his father and so boards the Jennings pretending to be Charlie Chan, with his younger brother Tommy (Layne Tom Jr.) in tow. The ruse doesn't last long and soon the real Chan arrives on board, interrogating a motley assortment of crooks, heiresses and crew as he works to solve a crime whose only witness is secretary Judy Haynes (Phyllis Brooks). Captain Johnson is eager to unload his cargo, which is mostly a shipment of "big cats" destined for the San Francisco Zoo. Deckhand Al Hogan (Eddie Collins) is fond of walking his pet lion Oscar on the main deck, to nobody's pleasure. Even more of a frightening sight is eccentric scholar Dr.Cardigan (George Zucco), who claims to have kept a human brain alive in formaldehyde for 6 months and is always on the lookout for new subjects. It develops that a suitcase with $300,000.00 is missing, the cash being involved in a tug-o'-war divorce settlement between Mrs.Carol Wayne (Claire Dodd) and the murder victim. Carol Wayne is found strangled to death in Judy Hayes' cabin, where the dead woman and Dr.Cardigan had argued before. Criminal Johnny McCoy (Marc Lawrence) is allegedly being extradited to the USA in the custody of Detective Joe Arnold (Richard Lane), but Chan exposes them as fellow criminals wanted for murder in Shanghai who were trying to sneak back into the USA. Jimmy starts a "controlled fire" on the ship, hoping to panic the killer in grabbing the hidden money and making a run for it. Charlie's anger is cooled when Jimmy shoves him out of the way of an assassin's bullet. The handgun ends up in the hands of Hogan, who returns it to Chan. Chan announces the murderer will be revealed by the fingerprints on the gun. The lights go out and the gun is missing when they come back on. But in stealing the gun, the guilty party triggered an infra-red camera that reveals his guilt beyond all doubt. The remaining passengers gather around the ship-to-shore phone, listening to the coos and cries of Charlie Chan's first grandchild. A 1939 American Black & White mystery film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel (uncredited and John Stone (associate producer), screenplay by Charles S. Belden, based on: the character "Charlie Chan" created by Chandler Sprague, cinematography Charles G. Clarke, starring Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, John 'Dusty' King, Claire Dodd, George Zucco, Robert Barrat, Marc Lawrence, Richard Lane, Layne Tom Jr., Philip Ahn, Paul Harvey, James Flavin, Oscar The Lion Released by 20th Century Fox. The first film in which Sidney Toler appeared as "Charlie Chan". Associate producer John Stone chose Toler to be the successor of Warner Oland, who played Chan from 1931 until his death in 1938, after seeing Toler play a Chinese character in the Paramount film "King of Chinatown" (1939). Toler was the thirty-fifth actor tested for the role. Others considered for the part included Leo Carrillo and Cy Kendall, who played Chan in a radio series. Toler portrayed Chan until his death in 1947, first for Twentieth Century-Fox and then, when World War II impacted Fox's profitable overseas market, Toler took the series to the low-budget Monogram Pictures. Toler starred in eleven Monogram Charlie Chan pictures. A native of Warrensburg, Missouri, Toler took an early interest in acting, appearing in an amateur production of "Tom Sawye"r at seven. Toler worked on the stage alongside such greats as Edward G. Robinson and Katherine Hepburn and eventually made his film debut playing an Englishman in "Madame X" (1929). This was also debut of Victor Sen Yung as James Chan, "number two" son. Yung replaced Keye Luke, who had portrayed "Lee Chan" in earlier entries in the series. Luke left the series after Oland's death, when he and Twentieth Century-Fox disagreed on his new contract. The search for Luke's replacement was frantic, and led to casting director James Ryan seeking applicants among Los Angeles Chinese university students and Chinatown residents. Charlie Chan was the creation of Harvard grad turned drama critic turned novelist Earl Derr Biggers who created the Asian detective in 1925. While vacationing in Hawaii, Biggers came across a Honolulu newspaper article about two Chinese detectives who inspired him to create a virtuous Chinese hero. Biggers saw Chan as an alternative to the predominant view of villainous Asians. A good blend of comedy and mystery. As usual, the viewer is given almost no way to solve the crime. Silly, but enjoyable.