"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.
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.
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.
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.
29 August 1948
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine.
10 January 1936
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1949:
12 November 1949
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents.
20 December 1949
Not quite as memorable as his previous Riders in the Sky, Gene Autry's Sons of New Mexico is still well up to the star's standard.
08 October 1949
This Traveltalk series short focuses on the sights and culture that define "Old England". Included is a visit to the Cotswold Hills area, a ride on the Wye River, and visits to Tintern Abbey in Wales and Laycock Abbey in Wiltshire, England.
11 October 1949
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
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.
02 April 1949
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range.
11 November 1949
Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
08 August 1949
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners.
30 September 1949
A series of sight gags, followed by a sing-along of "A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight."
29 August 1949
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed by McCabe's gang.
02 April 1949
Jack Garrett interrupts a stagecoach holdup where he meets Fuzzy (The town's stagecoach driver, station agent, baggage agent, and sheriff) and banker Jim Thorn.
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