{"id":32217,"date":"2023-03-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32217"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T00:22:00","slug":"the-shanghai-cobra-1945-starring-sidney-toler-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32217","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Shanghai Cobra&#8221; (1945) starring Sidney Toler &#038; Mantan Moreland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z031423zview_shanghaicobra.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"654\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Shanghai Cobra <\/strong><\/em>(1945)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Phil Karlson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>George Callahan, George Wallace Sayre<\/strong> based on characters created by <strong>Earl Derr Biggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, Janet Warren, Gene Roth, James Flavin, George Chandler \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Cyril Delevanti<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> Charlie Chan at his best in his most thrilling adventure!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chan (Toler) is brought in to work on a case where cobra venom is used as a murder weapon.\u00a0 Chan solved a case ten years prior, but the alleged murderer&#8217;s face was badly burned in his escape.\u00a0 Because of plastic surgery Chan won&#8217;t be able to recognize him from the several suspects he&#8217;s watching.\u00a0 As Charlie Chan closes in on the killer, his #3 son Tommy (Fong) and Birmingham (Moreland) follow leads of their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A highlight is Mantan and Fong performing a bit explaining how they received a traffic ticket. &#8220;You said, &#8216;No, you turn here.&#8221; &#8220;No, I said, no u-turn here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Chan has his usual (humorous) pearls of wisdom including when his son says, &#8220;Pop, I want to talk to you as man to man&#8221; and Chan responds with, &#8220;I am ready, but you still have few years to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Shanghai Cobra <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z031423zview_shanghaicobra2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shanghai Cobra (1945) Director:\u00a0 Phil Karlson Writer: George Callahan, George Wallace Sayre based on characters created by Earl Derr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32218,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217\/revisions\/32218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}