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Sky Dragon
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Wikipedia article
'Sky Dragon' (also titled 'Murder in the Air') is a 1949 American mystery film, the sixth in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan. Directed by Lesley Selander, it is the last Chan film in the long-running series that originated in 1930 with Fox Film Corporation production of 'Charlie Chan Carries On', starring Warner Oland.
Synopsis
After passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, they wake up to discover that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Mantan Moreland provides comic relief as Chan's chauffeur, Birmingham Brown.
Cast
*Roland Winters as Charlie Chan
*Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown
*Keye Luke as Lee Chan
*Milburn Stone as pilot Capt. Tim Norton
*Joel Marston as copilot Don Blake
*Lyle Talbot as Andrew Barrett, passenger on DC-3
*Iris Adrian as Wanda LaFern, burlesque dancer and passenger on DC-3
*Elena Verdugo as Wanda's sister Connie LaFern and former wife of Andrew Barrett, stewardess using alias Marie Burke
*Paul Maxey as John Anderson, investigator for the insurance company
*John Eldredge as William French, owner of the insurance company
*Tim Ryan as Lt. Mike Ruark
*Noel Neill as Jane Marshall
*Lyle Latell as Ed Davidson
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