Mr. Wong in Chinatown

1939

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1122 1.1K

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Plot summary

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...

Director

William Nigh Photo
William Nigh

Top cast

Angelo Rossitto Photo
Angelo Rossitto as Mute Dwarf
George Lynn Photo
George Lynn as Captain Guy Jackson
Richard Loo Photo
Richard Loo as Tong Chief
Lee Tung Foo Photo
Lee Tung Foo as Willie
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1 hr 10 min
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1 hr 10 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

When the Princess "Lin Hwa" (Lotus Long) is

When the Princess "Lin Hwa" (Lotus Long) is killed by a poisoned dart in the home of our eponymous San Francisco detective (Boris Karloff) she leaves him one, singly enigmatic, clue which he must utilise to thwart a gang involved with the Japanese occupation of China. Local plod "Capt. Street" (Grant Withers) bucks the trend of many similar style adventure films, and demonstrates some competence as the pair soon discover the foggy docks of their city harbour much more than just ships. There is never any doubt who will come a cropper in the end, but William Nigh gets a lot from his star, a limited script and an even more limited budget and presents us with a basic, but acceptable murder mystery with shades of political intrigue.
Reviewed by robert-temple-1 7 / 10

The third Mr. Wong film

Once again, Boris Karloff solves a case, as James Lee Wong, the Chinese amateur detective in San Francisco. There are plenty of villains again as usual, and this time the fact that there is a war going on in China is the background to a desperate plan to buy war planes in California for shipping to a general in China. But the plan goes seriously wrong due to corruption and murder in San Francisco. Grant Withers plays the Detective Inspector again, but this time he overacts a bit less, though he continues shouting too much. In fact, he shouts so much that Mr. Wong drolly remarks to him: 'I absolutely assure you I am not deaf.' So clearly Withers had been instructed by the director to behave like this. Marjorie Reynolds plays a young woman reporter for a local newspaper who is after a story, and another story, and another story. She interferes and will not go away, but she ends up by saving Mr. Wong's life when he is trapped in a car about to explode. More than a million dollars has been stolen, and several people have been murdered. Who is behind this? Is it the mysterious Chinese dwarf who cannot speak? Is it one of the two captains whose name begins with 'J'? Is it someone from Chinatown? Is it the banker? There is plenty to figure out.
Reviewed by classicsoncall 5 / 10

"Well this is a payoff, murder in the house of Mr. Wong, now we've seen everything."

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