Decades ago, I lived in a rooming house in the Chinese “ghetto” in Columbia, MO, and one of my housemates was a Yucheng Zhu, from Red China, a tea specialist studying at Mizzou. I suspected he always knew more than he let on. I couldn’t resist laying accolades on that admirable great Chinese detective, Charlie Chan, never letting on for a minute that I thought of him as anything other than a real life great detective. (I also obtained some Chinese language Catholic tracts for him from Fr. Kenneth Baker ... don’t know if it did any good.)
I have seen most of the Charley Chan movies, a couple of the Mr. Moto ones but not a single one of Mr. Wong.
I always thought that Charlie Chan was pretty good. Just about the right amount of humor, usually supplied by his number one Son and his constant girl chasing.
Watched all the Charlie Chan movies that Netflix has offered, and bought myself a lot of the DVD collection. Netflix has Mr. Moto and Mr. Wong too.
I love movies from this era. Chan, Moto, and Wong are hilarious.
The original Charlie Chan book is a good one...