Product Details

• Actors: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Joseph Crehan, Helen Beverly
• Directors: Phil Karlson, Phil Rosen
• Writers: Earl Derr Biggers, George Callahan, George Wallace Sayre
• Producers: James S. Burkett, Philip N. Krasne
• Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: July 6, 2004
• Run Time: 390 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00020X87A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,832 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Charlie Chan Chanthology (The Secret Service / The Chinese Cat / The Jade Mask / Meeting at Midnight / The Scarlet Clue / The Shanghai Cobra)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Collection of mystery films featuring the Chinese Hawaiian detective Charlie Chan.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-JUL-2004
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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58 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great set of dvds, July 22, 2004

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Pieni Ruusu - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Charlie Chan Chanthology (The Secret Service / The Chinese Cat / The Jade Mask / Meeting at Midnight / The Scarlet Clue / The Shanghai Cobra) (DVD)

I loved the entire Charlie Chan series! These Monogram Chan films are very entertaining in my book.
Sure the early ones were better (that could be said of any film series), but the movies in this set have become old friends. I have no complaints about this set. It's good fun!
I just hope they put out the rest of the Charlie Chan series on DVD too.

52 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the Best of Charlie Chan by a longshot..., January 12, 2005

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Jon Ell "jon-el" (Aliso Viejo, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Charlie Chan Chanthology (The Secret Service / The Chinese Cat / The Jade Mask / Meeting at Midnight / The Scarlet Clue / The Shanghai Cobra) (DVD)

As others have commented, these are the Monogram movies that came out post-WWII and not very good when compared to the earlier movies from Fox (featuring Sydney Toler with #2 son Victor Sen Young and before that Warner Oland with #1 son Keye Luke). While I don't want to discourage anyone from these, know that these are not the movies that Chan enthusiasts such as myself know and love and that there is much better that has not (yet) made it to DVD. I do hope someone at Fox or whoever owns the rights to these movies gets the message and releases *those* movies on DVD. This is like releasing a James Bond series but excluding the Sean Connery films. I really wished they would have released those earlier movies first and issued these later.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Charlie Chan Monogram series, October 1, 2004

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Richie & Janice Urquhart (Durango, CO United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Charlie Chan Chanthology (The Secret Service / The Chinese Cat / The Jade Mask / Meeting at Midnight / The Scarlet Clue / The Shanghai Cobra) (DVD)

I agree with those other reviewers that these 6 are not the best. However I still enjoy them and glad that I purchased them. These 6 films are good fun but probably not as good as the FOX movies. I can't hardly remember them. However I think they are more about traveling to solve the mystery. I hope Fox will someday release them. I'd purchase them in a heartbeat.