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The Shanghai Cobra ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Joan Barclay) – Classic Movie Review 9058

Director Phil Karlson’s 1945 low-budget Monogram Studios series thriller The Shanghai Cobra is an acceptable but slow paced and unatmospheric Charlie Chan entry.

Sidney Toler again stars as Charlie Chan, who this time investigates mysterious deaths apparently caused through snake bite. Three bank employees are found murdered with cobra venom, and it turns out a villain is trying to steal radium…