Product Details

• Actors: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie
• Directors: Lynn Shores
• Writers: John Larkin
• Producers: Ralph Dietrich, Walter Morosco
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301798252
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,083 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining entry in the popular series, January 16, 2002

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Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charlie Chan: At the Wax Museum [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Charlie Chan films are frequently accused of pandering to racial stereotypes. There is a certain truth to this, but Charlie Chan and company were neither more nor less stereotypical than such other popular series as the "Blondie" or "Dr. Kildare" series, and--while we may occasionally roll our eyes at a few 1930s sensibilities--its stereotypes are never mean-spirited and Charlie (along with his various sons) is always presented in a positive light.

This particular Chan episode is one of the best of the Sidney Toler vehicles, and unlike most other Chan films actually generates considerable atmosphere with its tale of a killer run wild in a mysterious wax museum, where all is not as it seems. Victor Sen Yung plays "number two son" Jimmy Chan very broadly, and the film is rounded out with a very able and entertaining cast. As with most Chan films, everything is "over the top," but WAX MUSEUM never goes so far over the top that it becomes pure camp; it remains an unpretentious, simple little movie that is quite a lot of fun to watch, and both fans of the series as well as newcomers will enjoy it quite a bit.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Person Who Not Like This Movie Need Head Examined., May 7, 2001

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Doghouse King "eddie_denman" (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Charlie Chan: At the Wax Museum [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an amalgam of several mystery/horror themes, and that is exactly why it is good. There are the chills of the wax museum setting, the whodunit aspect, the revenge plot of the gangster, some locked-in-an-old-dark-house elements, plus the comedy of #2 Chan (Toler) and his pithy interaction with #2 son. The labyrinthine mystery is eventually solved in fairly conventional fashion, but the movie is a lot of fun.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Killed By A Poison Dart, August 26, 2002

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Peter Kenney (Birmingham, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charlie Chan: At the Wax Museum [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Another pre-WWII film by 20th Century-Fox. Charlie is giving a weekly Crime League radio broadcast at the museum when an escaped convict seeks revenge on him for helping to put him in prison. One of Charlie's panelists is mistakenly killed by a poison dart intended for the great detective.

Sidney Toler plays Chan while Sen Yung is again cast in the role of Jimmy Chan. The screenplay is by John Larkin and the movie's director is Lynn Shores.

CHARLIE CHAN AT THE WAX MUSEUM is one of the best entries in the series.