Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)

Warner Oland is Charlie. He travels to Shanghai with entire family in tow, except for #1 son Lee (Keye Luke). Local authorities ask Charlie to help smash an international dope ring. We get to hear Charlie speak Chinese. Irene Hervey and Charles Locher provide the romantic interest. Our old friend from the Sherlock Holmes movies, Halliwell Hobbes, is the chief of police.




Halliwell Hobbes


Irene Hervey


Charles Locher

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How did Irene Hervey not get more screen time?!
She's a good looking lady.
A

MICHAELSPAPPY said...

She was one of those actresses whose beauty was slightly imperfect due to her teeth, but that just made her face all the more interesting. She was a decent actress and I would have thought she would have had more work than she did. One of her bigger films was Destry Rides Again.

She took several years off from acting in the 1940's to devote herself to her family.