
- Country: USA
- Genres: Mystery
- Release: 1948-07-11
- Director: William Beaudine
- Writers: Earl Derr Biggers , Samuel Newman , Scott Darling
- Language: English
- Stars: Roland Winters , Mantan Moreland , Tim Ryan (I) (1899–1956) , Victor Sen Yung
- Runtime: 65 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The Shanghai Chest , Crime por Alfabeto (Brazil) , The Shanghai Chest (Canada) , Charlie Chan in the Shanghai Chest (United States of America) , Shanghai Chest (United States of America) , Cufărul Shanghaian (Romania)
- Plot: Vic Armstrong arrives at his Uncle Judge Armstrong's home just in time to answer the telephone. Unknown to him, his uncle has just been murdered and the culprit is right there in the room with him! Phyllis Powers, on the other end of the line, recognizes Vic's voice, but just then Vic is knocked unconscious by the murderer. When he awakens, he (for reasons known only to movie mystery writers) pulls the knife out of his uncle's back, thus putting his fingerprints all over it, and just in time for the police, having been called by a worried Phyllis, to discover him standing over the body. Well, we know he didn't do it, but the police don't agree. Can Charlie Chan recognize the boy's innocence, and find the real murderer before Vic is sent into durance vile, or even worse?
- IMDB:tt0040778


The Shanghai Chest Cast · · · ALL

William Beaudine
Director

Roland Winters
Charlie Chan

Victor Sen Yung
Tommy Chan

Mantan Moreland
Birmingham Brown

Tim Ryan
(I)
(1899–1956)
Lt. Mike Ruark

John Alvin
Victor Armstrong

Deannie Best
Phyllis Powers

Tristram Coffin
Edward Seward

Olaf Hytten
Bates

Russell Hicks
Frank Bronson, district attorney

Willie Best
Willie Best

Milton Parsons
Mr. Grail

Philip Van Zandt
Joseph Pindello

Pierre Watkin
Judge Wesley Armstrong

George Eldredge
Detective Pat

Erville Alderson
Walter Somervale