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Sky Dragon (1949) Facts

Sky Dragon
Director(s) Lesley Selander
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie

Featured Cast Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Iris Adrian, Elena Verdugo
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The last of 47 Charlie Chan movies, though the character was revived in a 1957 TV series starring J. Carrol Naish (The New Adventures of Charlie Chan; a total of 39 episodes), and in a couple of unrelated movies. George Kuwa and Sôjin, both Japanese, each played the role once in lost silents, E.L. Park, a British actor who made no other films, put in a tiny cameo as Chan in Behind That Curtain. The Swedish Warner Oland started the series proper in 1931 with Charlie Chan Carries On, doing a total of 16 entries, Missouri-born Sidney Toler replaced him for 22 more, and Massachusetts-born Roland Winters ended it with the last six. Polish-born Ross Martin completed a 1970 TV movie reviving the character, a failed attempt at a new teleseries, while London-born Peter Ustinov starred in a final theatrical release, <a href="


This would be the final film in the Charlie Chan series of 17 lower-budgeted features at Monogram (Sidney Toler in the first 11, Roland Winters in the last 6).

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