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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792861058
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861051
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 64 minutes
Sales Rank: 31503
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1945
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From the director of Kansas City Confidential and The Silencers comes this universal Chan mystery. Containing a number of film noir elements unique to the series (such as a weary young detective, stark urban sets and a grown-up romance), The Shanghai Cobra is one of the most striking Chans of all! Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called to investigate a strange and complicated series of mysterious murders by cobra venom. Soon Charlie, Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) and ever-present assistant Birmhingham Brown are on the trail of an escaped con from Shanghai who's out to rob a government vault of its valuable contents: highly toxic radium!
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1945's "The Shanghai Cobra" is a better than average Charlie Chan movie of those featuring Sidney Toler as the famous Honolulu Detective, here seconded to U.S. Government duty for the war. Benson Fong as Number Three Son Tommy and Mantan Moreland as driver Birmingham Brown co-star and provide comic relief.
The movie opens with a noir-like sequence in which three people seem to be following each other around a darkened street. They have a brief confrontation in a cafe, then one drops ... Read More
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After Warner Oland died, Sidney Toler took over the role of Charlie Chan. Oland brought a natural dignity to the role that made Charlie seem like a beloved, rotund uncle. Toler inherited scripts that required him to be gruff and uncompromising, rather than charming. The films were now produced at Monogram which didn't want to spend much money.
The Shanghai Cobra was filmed on a B budget but the script made an attempt to retain some of the better elements of the Oland movies. For example, ... Read More
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Loosely based on novels by Earl Derr Biggers, 20th Century Fox's Charlie Chan series proved an audience favorite--but when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the studio feared audiences would turn against its Asian hero. This was a miscalculation: actor Sidney Toler took the role to "poverty row" Monogram Studios, where he continued to portray the character in eleven more films made between 1944 and his death in 1947.
20th Century Fox had regarded the Chan films as inexpensive "B" movies, but even ... Read More
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Wonderfully written and acted by Sidney Toler. A great movie for all Charlie Chan fans.
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Obviously the Chan movies made at Monogram could never compare to those made at Fox with Warner Oland, but of these, The Shanghai Cobra is one of the best. Several employees of a bank have been murdered by a killer dubbed "The Cobra Killer" for his use of cobra venom in dispatching his enemies. Chan is called in to solve the murders.
Director Phil Karlson really gets the most out of the limited budget he had to work with and this film looks much better than most Monogram films with better ... Read More
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