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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302717273
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302717272
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Running Time: 64 minutes
Sales Rank: 21866
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1945
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Rating: - A Clever Murder and a hidden Murderer...
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
Rating:  - Sidney Toler Plays Tough and Soft
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
Rating: - Among the Best of the "Monogram" Chans--But That Isn't Saying Much
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
Rating:  - Classic Charlie Chan
Wonderfully written and acted by Sidney Toler. A great movie for all Charlie Chan fans.
Rating: - One of Toler's Best Performances as Charlie Chan
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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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302717273
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302717272
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Running Time: 64 minutes
Sales Rank: 21866
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1945