8.5
“Charlie Chan at his best in his most thrilling adventure!”
The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
September 29, 19451h 4mEN
6.0
19 votes
Overview
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
Director
Phil KarlsonWhere to Watch
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Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Monogram Pictures
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CinemaSerf
6.0This 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…
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