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Doomed to Die ** (1940, Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 5606
The 1940 American black and white mystery film Doomed to Die brings back Boris Karloff from Dulwich, Surrey, England, as Chinese sleuth Mr James Lee Wong. Director William Nigh’s sequel to The Fatal Hour (1940) again stars Boris […]
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, […]
Mr Wong in Chinatown ** (1939, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5599
Boris Karloff continues to battle his odd and uneasy casting as San Francisco Chinese detective James Lee Wong, investigating an oriental princess’s death by poison dart in his hallway, in Monogram Pictures’ intriguing if modest […]
Mr Wong, Detective ** (1938, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Evelyn Brent) – Classic Movie Review 5597
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vlJ-HraBRY Boris Karloff is oddly and uncomfortably cast as Chinese detective Mr James Lee Wong, in his first appearance in the short-running series of six films. Mr Wong finds himself investigating a chemical manufacturer’s death, […]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man ** (1951, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Arthur Franz, Nancy Guild, Adele Jergens) – Classic Movie Review 5587
Director Charles Lamont’s 1951 comedy is a fairly lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with the expected plot (‘suggested by H G Wells’) and decent effects, particularly in the vivacious and pacy […]
Mortal Thoughts ***½ (1991, Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, John Pankow, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Movie Review 5574
Director Alan Rudolph’s tantalising 1991 movie Mortal Thoughts is a tastily cynical, ingenious, stylised neo noir thriller packed with lots of goodies, including the performances of Demi Moore as a new Jersey housewife suspected of […]
Dick Tracy ***½ (1990, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 5568
Producer/ director/ star Warren Beatty’s blockbuster comic strip parody Dick Tracy, based on the comic strip characters created by Chester Gould, was 1990’s most-hyped movie. In a huge star turn, Beatty impersonates the Thirties cartoon-strip […]