"Death rides the clouds" 27 April 1949 Adventure, Comedy, Crime 64 mins
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--must discover the identity of the person who doped the passengers and stole the money.
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Roland Winters as Charlie Chan
Keye Luke as Lee Chan
Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown
Noel Neill as Jane Marshall
Tim Ryan as Lt. Mike Ruark
Iris Adrian as Wanda LaFern
Elena Verdugo as Connie Jackson
Milburn Stone as Pilot Tim Norton
Paul Maxey as John Anderson
Joel Marston as Co-Pilot Don Blake
Lyle Talbot as Andrew J. Barrett
John Eldredge as W. E. French
Louise Franklin as Lena Franklin
Eddie Parks as Jonathon Tibbetts
Gaylord Pendleton as Ben Edwards
Edna Holland as Demanding Woman Passenger
Lesley Selander Director
Oliver Drake Screenplay
Web Overlander Makeup Artist
Raymond Boltz Jr. Set Decoration
Tom Lambert Sound
Otho Lovering Supervising Editor
Dave Milton Art Direction
James S. Burkett Producer
Durward Graybill Still Photographer
Allen K. Wood Production Manager
Roy V. Livingston Editor
William A. Sickner Director of Photography
Earl Derr Biggers Characters
Oliver Drake Story
Charlie Chan in The Sky Dragon Trailer
United States 27 April 1949
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27 June 1946
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
11 October 1935
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
23 June 1976
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
12 October 1946
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
19 August 1944
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
02 February 1942
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia.
20 May 1944
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
21 January 1935
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket.
30 December 1938
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
07 August 1936
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
28 March 1941
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
29 August 1948
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1949:
13 April 1949
The fox and crow are sharing grapes while the crow reads a book about a similar fox and crow sharing grapes who eventually fought it out for the last one.
06 January 1949
To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father.
10 June 1949
Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.
09 January 1949
Familiar radio voice Ben Grauer leads the viewer on a behind the scenes tour of the National Broadcasting Company studios -- both radio and television -- in Rockefeller Center and Hollywood.
07 February 1949
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war.
01 January 1949
Filmed record of a burlesque show, with Sunny Knight ("The Golden Girl of the Golden West") as the headliner.
02 December 1949
A prima donna hires a man to pretend to be her lover so as to protect her from an unwelcome suitor. Unbeknownst to her, he is a tenor in disguise.
02 April 1949
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range.
01 January 1949
The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government.
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