The Feathered Serpent (1948)
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice.
- Date of release
- 1948-12-19
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Collection
- Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) Collection
Casting
- Roland Winters — Charlie Chan
- Keye Luke — Lee Chan
- Mantan Moreland — Birmingham Brown
- Victor Sen Yung — Tommy Chan
- Carol Forman — Sonia Cabot
- Robert Livingston — John Stanley
- Nils Asther — Paul Evans
- Beverly Jons — Joan Farnsworth
- Martín Garralaga — Pedro Francisco Lopez
- George J. Lewis — Juan Gonzalez
- Leslie Denison — Henry Farnsworth
- Erville Alderson — Prof. Scott (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Feathered Serpent is a 1948 American mystery film, the fifth of six in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan. It is the only Chan film which featured both Keye Luke and Victor Sen Yung together. Luke had been cast in the later Warner Oland Chan films while Yung appeared primarily in the Sidney Toler Chan movies. This was Yung's last Chan movie. Luke appeared in one more with Roland Winters, the last of the Chan films, Sky Dragon (1949).
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