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Sky Dragon
Sky Dragon
Directed by	Lesley Selander
Written by	Earl Derr Biggers ; Oliver Drake
Produced by	James S. Burkett
Starring	Roland Winters ; Mantan Moreland ; Keye Luke
Cinematography	William A. Sickner
Edited by	Roy Livingston
Music by	Edward J. Kay
Production; company	Monogram Pictures
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	April 27, 1949;
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sky Dragon (also titled Murder in the Air) is a 1949 American mystery film, the sixth in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan. Directed by Lesley Selander, it is the last Chan film in the long-running series that originated in 1930 with Fox Film Corporation production of Charlie Chan Carries On, starring Warner Oland. Mantan Moreland provides comic relief as Chan's chauffeur, Birmingham Brown.

Plot edit

After passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, they wake up to discover that a quarter-million dollars is missing.

Roland Winters as Charlie Chan
Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown
Keye Luke as Lee Chan
Milburn Stone as pilot Capt. Tim Norton
Joel Marston as copilot Don Blake
Lyle Talbot as Andrew Barrett, passenger on DC-3
Iris Adrian as Wanda LaFern, burlesque dancer and passenger on DC-3
Elena Verdugo as Wanda's sister Connie LaFern and former wife of Andrew Barrett, stewardess using alias Marie Burke
Paul Maxey as John Anderson, investigator for the insurance company
John Eldredge as William French, owner of the insurance company
Tim Ryan as Lt. Mike Ruark
Noel Neill as Jane Marshall
Lyle Latell as Ed Davidson