Charlie Chan with dynamite sometime fly with angels." He argues, however, that these "colorful aphorisms" display "amazing linguistic acrobatic skills." Like the African American "signifying monkey," Huang continues, Chan "imparts as much insult as wisdom." Unless otherwise noted, information is taken from Charles P. Mitchell's "A Guide to Charlie Chan Films" (1999). DVD releases have mostly been in box set format. The American Western Charlie Chinese Charlie Chan Charlie Chan Charlie Chan is a fictional character created by Earl Derr Biggers. Biggers loosely based Chan on Honolulu, Hawaii, detective Chang Apana, and conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative
Charlie Chan in Paris Charlie Chan in Paris Charlie Chan in Paris is the seventh film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Long thought lost, it is now available on DVD as part of Twentieth Century Fox Home Video's "Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 1". Chan is on his way back from completing the London case—they always mentioned the previous case—to go on "vacation" to Paris, but this is just a way to make people think that he is innocently there. He is on a case for some London bankers and customers who say that some bonds from the Lamartine Bank in