CHARLIE CHAN FILMS COLLECTION Volume 1

CHARLIE CHAN - 16 FILMS - 1929/1937

Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor.
His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances.
He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters.
Oland's normal appearance fit the Hollywood expectation of caricatured Asianness of the time, despite his having no proven Asian ethnic background.
Oland portrayed various Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu.
A box office success, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu made Oland a star, and during the next two years, he portrayed the evil Dr. Fu Manchu in three more films.
Firmly locked into such roles, he was cast as Charlie Chan in the international detective mystery film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) and then in director Josef von Sternberg's 1932 classic film Shanghai Express opposite Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong. Oland played a werewolf, biting the protagonist, played by Henry Hull, in Werewolf of London (1935).
The enormous worldwide box office success of his Charlie Chan film led to more, with Oland starring in 16 Chan films.
Sadly, four films were lost.
Jill Lepore later wrote the series "Kept Fox afloat" during the 1930s while earning Oland $40,000 per movie.
Oland took his role seriously, studying the Chinese language and calligraphy.

CHARLIE CHAN FILMS LIST:

Behind That Curtain (Starring E.L.Park)

Eran Trece (Spanish with English Subtitles)

STARRING WARNER OLAND
The Black Camel
*Charlie Chan's Chance
*Charlie Chan's Courage
Charlie Chan in London
Charlie Chan in Paris
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Charlie Chan's Secret
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
*Photos and Audio Re-Creation of Lost Films

These films were originally produced long before the advent of High Definition TV. Therefore they are best viewed on a small screen. HD TVs tend to stretch and skew the picture. Please do not expect DVD or Commercial level DVDs from these films.