Charlie Chan at the Opera

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Ted B @Movieaddicted Feb 17 3.5 stars; Another well-done Warner Oland portrayal of Charlie Chan. I do like this series, along with Keye Luke as Number One Son. A neat, eerie addition of Boris Karloff in a dark character role for this film adds a scariness element. There is a clever throwaway line by the backstage manager saying he "needed everyone to focus on their jobs. He didn't care if Frankenstein's monster walked in the door..." See more @Blobbo 11/01/2021 Acceptable Charlie Chan movie pass time. See more 09/10/2021 A lunatic escapes from a mental asylum after seeing a newspaper article about an opera production at a nearby theater. The police fail to find him, and Charlie Chan happens to be nearby. The maniac is believed to be a former opera singer supposedly killed in a Chicago opera house fire years ago, with intentions of taking revenge on the opera stars who had locked him in the opera house. But there are feuds and intrigues among the opera cast and crew as well. But the story is not so simple after all. The maniac is at the opera house, but why is he there? For revenge, or for some other reason? The story takes on very unexpected turns before it concludes. Good performances by all, especially by Boris Karloff who plays the maniac without overdoing it, and it is not merely Number One Son who provides comic relief. See more andy f 07/12/2021 This one is a bit of a plodder and the jokes are a little thin on the ground. Boris Karloff is as awful as ever. Not a bad resolution though which makes a change for a Charlie Chan film! See more 04/06/2016 gets a star for having boris karloff See more 04/06/2016 In this installment, Charlie Chan is revealed to be an opera fan and he works diligently to find the killer of two singers in the fictitious opera, 'Carnival', composed for the movie by Oscar Levant. Of course nothing is as it seems as is revealed in the end by the wise Chan. Stage manager's comment that the opera will go on "even if Frankenstein walks in" is a cute in-joke referring to Karloff's former starring role. See more Read all reviews

Charlie Chan at the Opera

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