The Shanghai Cobra (1:04) 1945

Four people are murdered by injected cobra venom and the local bank is holding radium in a secured vault. How are these two situations connected? Charlie Chan is asked to investigate the murders. He brings along his number three son Tommy and his chauffeur/butler Birmingham. The cobra venom cases are similar to the ones that took earlier place in Shanghai. Chan had the murder suspect in custody but he escaped during the 1937 bombing of  Shanghai by the Japanese. Charlie sets a trap for the would be bank robbers which is almost foiled by his son and butler. In the end, Charlie always gets his man. This episode has a scene when a customer is paying for two cups of coffee and the bill comes to twenty cents. It also cracked me up to think that a bank was holding onto radium and Charlie would enter the vault and check the safety deposit box with a small Geiger counter checking the radiation levels to make sure the radium hadn't been stolen. As much as I have seen a lot of Charlie Chan movies, this was the first time for The Shanghai Cobra.