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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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