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The Shanghai Cobra is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Phil Karlson released in USA on 29 september 1945 with Sidney Toler
The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
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Add to a movie listThe Shanghai Cobra is a 1945 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.
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When three bank employees are killed with cobra venom, Detective Chan recalls an oddly similar case ten years earlier in Shanghai. Benson Fong and Mantan Moreland, return as Tommy "Number Three Son" Chan, and Birmingham Brown.Actors
Sidney Toler
(Charlie Chan)
Mantan Moreland
(Birmingham Brown)
Benson Fong
(Tommy Chan)
Joan Barclay
(Paula Webb)
Addison Richards
(John Adams)
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