{"id":40118,"date":"2025-09-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40118"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:27:58","slug":"the-black-camel-1931-starring-warner-oland-and-bela-lugosi-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40118","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Black Camel&#8221; (1931) starring Warner Oland and Bela Lugosi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z092825zview_blackcamel2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"773\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Black Camel <\/strong><\/em>(1931)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Hamilton MacFadden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Barry Conners, Philip Klein, Dudley Nichols <\/strong>(uncredited)<strong>; <\/strong>written by <strong>Hugh Stanislaus Stange<\/strong> (adaptation), based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46pbVjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE BLACK CAMEL<\/a> by <strong>Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Warner Oland, Bela Lugosi, Victor Varconi, Murray Kinnell, J.M. Kerrigan, Mary Gordon, Dwight Frye<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Robert Young<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> The unsolved secrets of Hollywood<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shelah Fayne is a movie star.\u00a0 Her friends are beginning to worry about her.\u00a0 Shelah is thinking of marrying a man she has only known a week.\u00a0 Shelah will make a decision once she speaks to her favorite psychic, Tarneverro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Shelah is murdered Inspector Charlie Chan gets the case.\u00a0 There are many suspects.\u00a0 One is the killer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bela Lugosi plays the psychic.\u00a0 Dwight Frye appears uncredited as Jessop.\u00a0 Lugosi and Frye appeared together in <em>Dracula<\/em> which was released the same year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warner Oland made five Charlie Chan films based on novels written by Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers.\u00a0 Sadly <em>The Black Camel<\/em> is the only one that survived.\u00a0 The other four were lost due to studio fires.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Young who went on to fame playing <em>Marcus Welby, M.D.<\/em>, makes his film debut in <em>The Black Camel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most folks enjoy The Black Camel more than I.\u00a0 Keep in mind your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Black Camel <\/strong><\/em>(1931) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z092825zview_blackcamel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Camel (1931) Director:\u00a0 Hamilton MacFadden Screenplay:\u00a0 Barry Conners, Philip Klein, Dudley Nichols (uncredited); written by Hugh Stanislaus Stange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40119,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40118\/revisions\/40119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}