Word: chan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want it more than any other inland province. The Chinese, who realize that losing it means surrendering their last talon-hold in North China, have hung on like eagles. Some of China's best fighting men are there, reports Reporter White: the hard-riding cavalry of General Ma Chan-shan, "Giant Horse,"hero of Manchuria; the famous Communist 8th Route guerrillas; the cream of China's Government troops; and provincial troops, who are fighting for the soil on which they grew up. Early in the war, the Japanese chased the Chinese from the great alluvial plain around Peking...
...away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain...
...Hopeless: Senators Clyde Reed of Kansas, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, Warren Barbour of New Jersey, Chan Gurney of South Dakota, Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, Wallace White and Frederick Hale of Maine, Ernest Gibson and Warren Austin of Vermont, Rufus Holman of Oregon, John Townsend of Delaware, James Davis of Pennsylvania...
...Charlie Chan in Reno (Twentieth Century-Fox). A beautiful divorcee gets more than she bargained for, and Charlie Chan II (Sidney Toler) adds another tour to Twentieth Century-Fox's private Baedeker of Crime. He gets the culprit, but there seems to be more chin than Chan in the process...
...paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling's celebrated water-boy; and Mr. Kipling himself even pops into the picture on occasion. The film is entertaining, and far better than the latest Charlie Chan affair--which pleases only the yelling school kids in the balcony...