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Admirable film.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The Charlie Chan series at Monogram comes to an end with this picture. The plot sees Charlie (Roland Winters) and "Number One Son" Lee (Keye Luke) on an airplane where all the passengers are drugged. While they're out, a man is murdered and a quarter-million dollars stolen. Also appearing in this one is bug-eyed comic sidekick Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). The rest of the cast includes Milburn Stone (Doc from Gunsmoke), Noel Neill (Lois Lane from Adventures of Superman), and Lyle Talbot (movie star extraordinaire). Winters is weak as usual but the plot is surprisingly fresh for Monogram. Keye Luke is fun and the supporting cast is decent. It's ironic that the Winters series ended after its two strongest films. But it was a case of too little too late, I think.

Also known as MURDER IN THE AIR, this is the sixth Chan film starring Roland Winters. To be exact, this is the last in the Charlie Chan franchise that began at Fox Films about 19 years earlier with Warner Oland playing the American-Chinese detective from Honolulu. The series pretty much began declining in substance and popularity when Winters took over for Sidney Toler as Chan in 1947. This film has Charlie on board a flight to San Francisco with #1 son Lee(Keye Luke)and his bug eyed chauffeur Birmingham Brown(Mantan Moreland). Before arriving at their destination passengers and pilots are drugged and upon waking up an insurance courier is found dead and the quarter-million-dollars he was carrying is missing. Winters is lackluster in performing his duties as the honorable detective. Moreland provides some rib splitting comic relief as usual and Luke gets to fly the plane to the closing credits. (Did they not plan this to be the end of the series? You would figure the lead character would close out the string of murder mysteries). Also in the cast: Milburn Stone, Noel Neill, Tim Ryan and Lyle Talbot. Ah so, Charlie Chan.

Spoilers herein.Yes, this stuff is racist, and poorly produced to boot. But originally, the idea was to annotate the game of detection - that strategic movement between writer and reader - with Chinese sayings. Those were really pretty apt, both so far as the mystery and the denoting of wisdom. In the hands of a good writer, it was innovative and useful. In the hands of a hack, its Saturday morning skit quality.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

The last Chan film made by Monogram and Roland Winters is a sad final bow for the great detective and great film series. The supporting cast is good for a Monogram picture. The best thing about it is that Keye Luke is back as Lee Chan. Great title. Poor picture! Sorry Charlie!