Sky Dragon
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Sky Dragon | |
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Directed by | Lesley Selander |
Written by | Earl Derr Biggers (character) Oliver Drake (story and adaptation) |
Produced by | James S. Burkett |
Starring | Roland Winters |
Cinematography | William A. Sickner |
Edited by | Roy Livingston |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Monogram Studios |
Release date |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Sky Dragon (also titled Murder in the Air) is a 1949 mystery film, the sixth in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan. Directed by Lesley Selander, it is the last Chan film in the series that originated in 1930 with Fox Film Corporation production of Charlie Chan Carries On, starring Warner Oland.
Synopsis[]
After passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, they wake up to discover that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Mantan Moreland provides comic relief as Chan's chauffeur, Birmingham Brown.
Cast[]
- Roland Winters as Charlie Chan
- Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown
- Keye Luke as Lee Chan
- Milburn Stone as pilot Capt. Tim Norton
- as copilot Don Blake
- Lyle Talbot as Andrew Barrett, passenger on DC-3
- Iris Adrian as Wanda LaFern, burlesque dancer and passenger on DC-3
- Elena Verdugo as Wanda's sister Connie LaFern and former wife of Andrew Barrett, stewardess using alias Marie Burke
- Paul Maxey as John Anderson, investigator for the insurance company
- John Eldredge as William French, owner of the insurance company
- Tim Ryan as Lt. Mike Ruark
- Noel Neill as Jane Marshall
External links[]
- Sky Dragon at IMDb
- Sky Dragon at the TCM Movie Database
Categories:
- 1949 films
- English-language films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- Charlie Chan films
- Monogram Pictures films
- Films directed by Lesley Selander
- American aviation films
- 1949 mystery films
- American mystery films
- 1940s English-language films
- Mystery film stubs