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The Shanghai Chest is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William Beaudine released in USA on 11 july 1948 with Roland Winters
The Shanghai Chest (1948)
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Add to a movie listShanghai Chest is a 1948 American film featuring Roland Winters in his third appearance as Charlie Chan.
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As Victor Armstrong visits his uncle, Judge Wesley Armstrong in San Francisco, he is knocked unconscious by an unknown attacker, and when he wakes up he finds out his uncle has been stabbed to death. The judge's private secretary, Phyllis Powers, finds the two men and calls the police to the scene. When Victor wakes up he has the knife that stabbed his uncle in his hand.Actors
Roland Winters
(Charlie Chan)
Victor Sen Yung
(Tommy Chan)
Mantan Moreland
(Birmingham Brown)
Tristram "Tris" Coffin
(Edward Seward)
Russell Hicks
(Frank Bronson, district attorney)
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