Directed by Lewis Seiler
1935/USA
Fox Film Corporation
First viewing
Charlie Chan: Joy in heart more desirable than bullet.
Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) visits Paris to investigate a bond forging scheme and meets up with a couple of murders in the process.
This is a pretty good entry in the mystery series. I was interested to see Erik Rhodes in the role of a bank employee and usually drunk. I had never seen him in anything but the two Astaire/Rogers movies in which plays comic Italians. He’s OK but his material doesn’t let him be very funny.
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I have never seen Erik Rhodes in anything other that the Fred and Ginger films either. I wonder why……..he really could be quite funny.
I don’t think I have seen this film but with this series, you can never be sure.
The films are becoming more or less interchangable. I think I’m going to start giving them a miss unless they have a “guest star” I want to see. 1936 has Charlie Chan at the Opera with Karloff so I’ll give that one a try.