tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post4764952432460732515..comments2024-02-01T23:41:43.069-05:00Comments on Out of the Past: IOU: Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)Raquel Stecherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687110907002450794noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-75243374694591387132011-06-07T16:41:18.048-04:002011-06-07T16:41:18.048-04:00I like this one too, and have a poster for it hang...I like this one too, and have a poster for it hanging in my office. <br /><br />Oscar Levant wrote the opera that appears in the movie. Always very impressed that Fox would go to the trouble to commission Levant to write the music, rather than save money and using an opera in the public domain. <br /><br />And Raquelle, belated congratulations on your engagement.Kevin Deanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697597405552599370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-30907533368737280012011-06-07T14:10:03.118-04:002011-06-07T14:10:03.118-04:00Honestly, I always tell people the only thing ster...Honestly, I always tell people the only thing stereotypical about Chan is the way he talks. Otherwise he acts nothing like a stereotypical "Oriental." He is hardly docile (he orders European Americans around) and he is always the most intelligent person around. At any rate, Charlie Chan at the Opera is my favourite of the Chan films, not just because of Mr. Karloff and Mr. Demarest (whom TV viewers might remember from My Three Sons), but because it is well written and a lot of fun.Terence Towles Canotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18397088843628331615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155853741712764167.post-48484025674742618372011-06-07T12:03:24.541-04:002011-06-07T12:03:24.541-04:00Thanks for your excellent review - CC at the opera...Thanks for your excellent review - CC at the opera is one of my favorites also - I get a kick out of watching Karloff lip-sync in the opera-within-the-film. I agree w/your assessment that Chan is always the smartest guy in the room; and he has enough self-confidence to know that he doesn't need to make an issue of it!Grand Old Movieshttp://grandoldmovies.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com