Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Chinese detective"

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The Scarlet Clue ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong) – Classic Movie Review 6,612

The 1945 thriller film The Scarlet Clue stars Sidney Toler in a fair, busy, tautly handled Charlie Chan series entry with Earl Derr Biggers’s Oriental detective chasing World War Two foreign agents to get back […]

Jan, 27

Phantom of Chinatown *** (1940, Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 5610

Following Doomed to Die (1940), Boris Karloff gives up his Mr Wong role for the sixth and last of the Monogram Pictures series based on the work of Hugh Wiley. Grant Withers, however, returns as police Captain Street of the […]

Jun, 14

The Fatal Hour ** (1940, Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 5605

In the sequel to Mr Wong in Chinatown (1939), The Fatal Hour is the well-plotted and intriguing fourth of the six-film Mr Wong crime thriller series. Boris Karloff again stars as Chinese sleuth James Lee Wong, […]

Jun, 14

The Mystery of Mr Wong *** (1939, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree, Craig Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5598

Despite his odd casting, Boris Karloff is good serious fun as Mr James Lee Wong, the Oriental detective, investigating a stolen gem and murder, in director William Nigh’s most entertaining and satisfying 1937 film version […]

Jun, 13

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