On Sunday, I met with my buddies Sergio Angelini and Nick Cardillo for our latest game of list-drafting. After tackling Christie, Hitchcock, Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan, we decided to broaden our focus on a more general look at the mystery genre in film. Each of us did our research and came together armed with … Continue reading THE “GREATEST MYSTERY FILMS OF ALL TIME” DRAFT!!!
Charlie Chan
CHARLIE CHAN AT FOX: The Complete Rankings
While the Fox Charlie Chan films are fresh in everyone’s minds – okay, maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part! – I thought I would take one step beyond the Top Thirteen list that Sergio, Nick, and I drafted over the weekend and share with you my complete ranking of all twenty-three of the Fox … Continue reading CHARLIE CHAN AT FOX: The Complete Rankings
THE FOX CHARLIE CHAN DRAFT
You can’t help but wonder if Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, created in 1925 by popular author Earl Derr Biggers, would have left as lasting and, well, complicated an impression on our culture had he never made it to film. After all, there were only six novels published in a space of seven years. They were … Continue reading THE FOX CHARLIE CHAN DRAFT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. CHAN! Keeper of the Keys
“I am only stranger, passing through, and it has been well said, the traveling dragon cannot crush the local snake . . . Do not believe, however, that I consider myself dragon. I lack, I fear, the figure.” Once upon a time, a hundred years ago to this very day, the The Saturday Evening Post began a … Continue reading HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. CHAN! Keeper of the Keys
HAPPY CENTENARY, MR. CHAN
Back in April of last year, I received an e-mail from a reader made some lovely comments about the blog – before pointing out a gap in my Golden Age coverage: “Many/most of my favorites are here, as illustrated by the fine group cartoon that graces the top of the blog. The reason I bring up Charlie … Continue reading HAPPY CENTENARY, MR. CHAN
Ah Sweet Mystery! 