Rate the Chan Movies
Having just watched and enjoyed this movie I would like to know what is considered the best Chan movies.
shareOf Sidney Toler's this one, Castle in the Desert and CC at the Wax Museum. My favorite of Warner Oland's was CC in Egypt. Enjoy.
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
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shareMay I politely disagree with the Wax Museum? I thought that one had probably the most potential and fell the flatest. It was over before you knew it and I thought it had one too many crooks. (it just needed one)I did like this one a lot.
I also thought Charlie Chan in Reno is a gem IMHO.
1. CC AT TREASURE ISLAND (best in the whole series)
2. CASTLE IN THE DESERT
3. CC IN PANAMA
4. DEAD MEN TELL
5. CC IN RIO
6. CC AT THE OPERA
1. Opera
2. Paris
3. Egypt (except for the Fetchit part)
4. Treasure Island
5. Broadway
6. Race Track (except for the Snowshoes part)
7. London
8. Wax Museum
9. Panama
10. Circus
11. Black Camel
12. Olympics
13. Rio
1. Charlie Chan in Panama
2. The Black Camel
3. Charlie Chan at the Olympics
4. Charlie Chan at the Circus
"Charlie Chan in Honolulu" (the first of the Tolers) has grown on me over the years. It's well cast and really pretty neatly thought out. Also I think Eddie Collins, the little comic who guards the animals on the ship, is pretty funny. A chubby little scaredy-cat type, he's also good as a taxi driver in "Charlie Chan in Reno". I was kind of underwhelmed when I first saw it decades ago. But after many viewings over the years, I think I'd now probably rank it at #5.
"Charlie Chan at Treasure Island" has plenty of atmosphere but just too many gaping plot holes and lapses of logic.