Charlie Chan in The Shanghai Cobra (1945)

Description

From the director of 'Kansas City Confidential' and 'The Silencers' comes this unusual 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 in 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 Birmingham Brown are on the trail of an escaped con from Shanghai who's out to rob a government vault of its valuable contests: highly toxic radium!