Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection
The Shanghai Cobra
Charlie Chan at his best in his most thrilling adventure!
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
- Original title
- The Shanghai Cobra
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jul 1, 2022 · via TMDB
This rather basic feature sees Sidney Toler's "Charlie" with son "Tommy" (Benson Fong) and chauffeur "Birmingham Brown" (Mantan Moreland) investigating the murder of three folks working at a bank. What makes it more curious is that these people have been done away with using cobra venom - and this reminds our sleuth of a previous case he solved in Shanghai some years earlier. That perpetrator, though very badly burned, escaped custody - and "Chan" suspects that he may be up to his old tricks again. Snag - well the burns were so severe as to necessitate plastic surgery, so nobody now knows what he looks like! This film depends more than usual of Moreland and his comedic antics; the rest of the mystery is a bit too procedural with the constantly bumbling efforts of No. 3 son getting a bit wary at times. Still, much of the adventure takes place underground - and that lends an eeriness to the thing, and there is enough here to pass an hour easily. Not one of the better in the series, but still ok.
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Amazon Video
Amazon Video
Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
Benson Fong
Tommy Chan
Mantan Moreland
Birmingham Brown
James Cardwell
Ned Stewart
Joan Barclay
Paula Webb
Walter Fenner
Police Inspector Harry Davis
Roy Gordon
Walter Fletcher
Arthur Loft
Bradford Harris
Addison Richards
John Adams
Janet Warren
Record Machine Operator
Gene Roth
Morgan
Joe Devlin
Taylor
James Flavin
H.R. Jarvis
George Chandler
Joe
Phil Karlson
Director
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