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Mr. Wong in Chinatown

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

Mystery | 71 minutes
2,45 10 votes
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Genre: Mystery / Thriller

Duration: 71 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: William Nigh

Stars: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds and Grant Withers

IMDb score: 5,8 (1.123)

Releasedate: 1 August 1939

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Mr. Wong in Chinatown plot

A Chinese woman asks for help from Inspector James Lee Wong, but is killed with a poison arrow not long after. Wong begins the investigation, and discovers that the lady is actually Princess Lin Hwa, and was sent on a secret mission to prepare for the Japanese invasion of America.

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Boris Karloff Boris Karloff

Mr. James Lee Wong

Marjorie Reynolds Marjorie Reynolds

Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan

Grant Withers Grant Withers

Police Capt. Bill Street

Huntley Gordon Huntley Gordon

Mr. Davidson

George Lynn George Lynn

Capt. Guy Jackson

William Royle William Royle

Capt. Jaime

James Flavin James Flavin

Police Sgt. Jerry

Lotus Long Lotus Long

Princess Lin Hwa

Lee Tung Foo Lee Tung Foo

Willie

Bessie Loo Bessie Loo

Lilly May

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Roger Thornhill

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13 February 2013 at 17:32

Mr. Wong (played by Boris Karloff and in one film by Keye Luke) is a quiet, shrewd Chinese detective in San Francisco, in a series of six films initiated by Monogram in an attempt to cash in on the success of Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan ( Warner Oland, Sidney Toler and Roland Winters) and Mr Moto (the immortal Peter Lorre). Let's just say that grain didn't really turn out to be a successful crop.

This episode is not bad, with Karloff who is always fascinating and a nice atmosphere, but Marjorie Reynolds as wisecrackin' platinum-blonde reporter and Grant Withers as a screaming pseudo-comic frustrated police inspector are two equally clichéd as annoying characters, and the plot is not very interesting.

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