The Feathered Serpent (1948 film)

The Feathered Serpent (also titled Charlie Chan in the Feathered Serpent) is a 1948 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).

The Feathered Serpent
Directed byWilliam Beaudine
Written byOliver Drake (story and adaptation)
Earl Derr Biggers (character)
Hal Collins (uncredited)
Produced byJames S. Burkett
StarringRoland Winters
Music byEdward J. Kay
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Distributed byMonogram Distributing Corp.
Release date
  • December 19, 1948 (1948-12-19)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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In Mexico, an expedition prepares to look for two missing archeologists, Professors Scott (Erville Alderson) and Farnsworth (Leslie Dennison), who had been searching for a lost Aztec temple, but have been missing for two months. Charlie Chan (Roland Winters), is on his way to Mexico City for a vacation with sons one and two, Lee (Keye Luke) and Tommy (Victor Sen Yung), along with chauffeur and assistant, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). As they near the town of San Pablo, they sight Professor Scott who is delirious and collapsed near the road. Later, in town, the revived Scott explains that he and Farnsworth had found the lost temple, but they were held hostage and forced to assist with the looting of priceless Aztec artifacts from the temple. However, before Scott can reveal the name his captor, he is murdered. Chan, his sons, and Birmingham join the search party that has been organized to find Farnsworth and the lost temple.

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