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The Sky Dragon was the last of the series Chan films. Well, there was an odd independent Charlie Chan production was made decades later, but this concluded the long-running franchise. It was long overdue. Monogram Pictures had had the series for six years by this point and had pretty much pummeled it into the ground with low budgets, recycled plot ideas, and Roland Winters, who never realized the Charlie Chan character the way his predecessors, Warner Oland and Sidney Toler, did.
This episode has Chan solving a murder that takes place on an airplane. As was common in the tail end of the series, Chan doesn't do a whole lot of detective work -- not on-screen, anyway -- and the array of suspects are shallow stereotypes. Very little amusing or exciting occurs, and although the film is scarcely over an hour long, it still manages to make the "climactic" ending seem twice that.
Series Entries
- Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
- The Black Camel (1931)
- Charlie Chan's Chance (1932)
- Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)
- Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
- Charlie Chan In London (1934)
- Charlie Chan In Paris (1935)
- Charlie Chan In Egypt (1935)
- Charlie Chan In Shanghai (1935)
- Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
- Charlie Chan At the Circus (1936)
- Charlie Chan At the Race Track (1936)
- Charlie Chan At the Opera (1937)
- Charlie Chan At the Olympics (1937)
- Charlie Chan On Broadway (1937)
- Charlie Chan At Monte Carlo (1937)
- Charlie Chan In Honolulu (1939)
- Charlie Chan In Reno (1939)
- Charlie Chan At Treasure Island (1939)
- City In Darkness (1939) (aka: "Charlie Chan In City In Darkness")
- Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
- Charlie Chan At the Wax Museum (1940)
- Charlie Chan In Panama (1940)
- Murder Over New York (1940)
- Charlie Chan In Rio (1941)
- Dead Men Tell (1941)
- Castle In the Desert (1942)
- Charlie Chan In the Secret Service (1944)
- The Chinese Cat (1944) (aka: "Charlie Chan In the Chinese Cat")
- Charlie Chan In Black Magic (1944) (aka: "Meeting At Midnight")
- The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
- The Scarlet Clue (1945)
- The Jade Mask (1945)
- The Red Dragon (1946) (aka: "Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon")
- Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
- Dangerous Money (1946) (aka: "Charlie Chan In Dangerous Money")
- Dark Alibi (1946)
- The Trap (1947) (aka: "Charlie Chan In the Trap")
- The Chinese Ring (1947)
- Docks of New Orleans (1948) (aka: "Charlie Chan On the Docks of New Orleans")
- Shanghai Chest (1948)
- The Golden Eye (1948) (aka: "Charlie Chan and the Golden Eye")
- The Feathered Serpent (1948) (aka: "Charlie Chan and the Feathered Serpent")
- The Sky Dragon (1949) (aka: "Charlie Chan and the Sky Dragon")
Related Films
- The House Without a Key (1925)
- The Chinese Parrot (1927)
- Behind That Curtain (1929)
- The Return of Charlie Chan (1979) (aka: "Happiness Is a Warm Clue")
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)