Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 (Charlie Chan at the Circus / Charlie Chan at the Olympics / Charlie Chan at the Opera / Charlie Chan at the Race Track)

Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 (Charlie Chan at the Circus / Charlie Chan at the Olympics / Charlie Chan at the Opera / Charlie Chan at the Race Track)
by H. Bruce Humberstone, Harry Lachman

Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 (Charlie Chan at the Circus / Charlie Chan at the Olympics / Charlie Chan at the Opera / Charlie Chan at the Race Track)
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Actor: Francis Ford, George Brasno, Keye Luke, Olive Brasno, Warner Oland
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone, Harry Lachman
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Bess Meredyth
Writer: Charles Belden
Writer: Earl Derr Biggers
Writer: Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Writer: Helen Logan
Writer: Lou Breslow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 281 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 (Charlie Chan at the Circus / Charlie Chan at the Olympics / Charlie Chan at the Opera / Charlie Chan at the Race Track)

DVD Review: 2ND CHAN SET!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Another great set of Chan features. They are just the ultimate in entertainment. Oland shines. Films look great.

DVD Review: DVD's I've Purchased
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great set of nostalga that alloys you to look back at history done in the finest of style. No cussing, no open sex, real thought provoking mystery, great entertainment that can be enjoyed over and over again.

DVD Review: Charlie Chan vol. 2
Summary: 4 Stars

I enjoyed each of the 4 movies. Charlie Chan at the Circus was my favorite .

DVD Review: Doesn't Get Any Better
Summary: 5 Stars

Fox finally did it. Five box sets (this one is volume 2) make up all the surviving Fox Charlie Chan films on DVD. Bonus features on a few include the rarely seen BEHIND THAT CURTAIN and THE BLACK CAMEL, and reconstructions of two "lost" films and a Portugese version of another. The print quality is superb and worth the money. Now if only Turner can do the same...

DVD Review: A Charlie Chan fan
Summary: 5 Stars

My husband is a Charlie Chan fan. It doesn't matter who is in the starring role. Our purchase proved to be most entertaining and met every expectation for intrigue and suspense. Good purchase.

Description of Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 (Charlie Chan at the Circus / Charlie Chan at the Olympics / Charlie Chan at the Opera / Charlie Chan at the Race Track)

Disc 1: CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA Full Screen Feature (Black & White) Charlie Chan's Lucky Director: H. Bruce Humberstone Restoration Comparison Trailer

Disc 2: CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OLYMPICS Full Screen Feature (Black & White) Layne Tom,Jr: The Adventures of Charlie Chan, Jr. Restoration Comparison Trailer

Disc 3: CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK Full Screen Feature (Black & White) Number One Son: The Life of Keye Luke Restoration Comparison Trailer

Disc 4: CHARLIE CHAN AT THE CIRCUS Full Screen Feature (Black & White) Charlie Chan At The Movies Restoration Comparison Trailer


"Size of package does not indicate quality within," Honolulu's finest, Charlie Chan sagely observes in Charlie Chan at the Circus, and while this boxed set contains only four films, it does this venerable franchise justice, with some of Chan's most arresting cinematic outings. All four films star Swedish-born Warner Oland, who is to Charlie Chan what Sean Connery is to James Bond. The high note of this set is Charlie Chan at the Opera, in which the curtain comes down on two opera singers during a performance. Boris Karloff (whose frightening presence accounts for a very funny reference to Frankenstein) costars as an amnesiac who escapes from a sanitarium to haunt the theatre like some phantom of the... well, you know. William Demarest steals his scenes as a cop in dire need of sensitivity training. He refers to Chan as "Chop Suey" and "Egg Fu Young," and when No. 1 son (Keye Luke) gives his dad a note, he asks if it's a laundry ticket. In Charlie Chan at the Circus, a Chan family excursion (with all 12 children!) to the Big Top is interrupted when the nasty circus owner is murdered.

Charlie Chan at the Olympics is another gold-medal outing that finds Chan embroiled in international espionage when an experimental automatic pilot device is stolen. His investigation leads him to the Berlin Olympics (via the Hindenburg), where his son is on the track team. Newsreel footage of the games integrated into the film features Jesse Owens running the 400-meter relay. Less of a sure bet but still an efficient mystery is Charlie Chan at the Race Track. Each restored film looks great, and each is enhanced with featurettes that illuminate interesting aspects of the series. One profiles prolific Chan director H. Bruce "Lucky" Humberstone (who, we learn, fortified his star with drink), and another Keye Luke. "Charlie Chan at the Movies" examines these films' places in the Chan canon. There are certainly enough 1930s cultural and racial stereotypes (John Allen as stableboy "Streamline" Jones in Race Track) here to keep the PC police working overtime, but for Charlie Chan buffs and B-movie fans, this is an essential collection that is, to quote Chan, a "chip off ancient block." --Donald Liebenson

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