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The Shanghai Cobra

The Shanghai Cobra

  • Status: Released
  • 29-09-1945
  • Runtime: 64 min
  • Score: 5.8
  • Vote count: 17

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

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

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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.