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Sky Dragon is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lesley Selander released in USA on 27 april 1949 with Roland Winters
Sky Dragon (1949)
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Add to a movie listSky Dragon (also titled Murder in the Air) is a 1949 mystery film, the sixth in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan. This film is the last Chan film in the series that originated in 1930 with Fox Film Corporation production of Charlie Chan Carries On, starring Warner Oland.
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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.Actors
Roland Winters
(Charlie Chan)
Mantan Moreland
(Birmingham Brown)
Keye Luke
(Lee Chan)
Noel Neill
(Jane Marshall)
Iris Adrian
(Wanda LaFern)
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