The Fatal Hour

1940

Crime / Mystery

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 19% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 1506 1.5K

smuggling (contraband) detective murder mr. wong

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Plot summary

When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.

Director

William Nigh Photo
William Nigh

Top cast

Richard Loo Photo
Richard Loo as Jeweler
Jason Robards Sr. Photo
Jason Robards Sr. as Griswold
Harry Harvey Photo
Harry Harvey as Radio Salesman
Tristram Coffin Photo
Tristram Coffin as Hotel Desk Clerk
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618.47 MB
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 7 min
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1.12 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
Approved
24 fps
1 hr 7 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Maybe not one of the better "Wong" (Boris

Maybe not one of the better "Wong" (Boris Karloff) outings this, but it still moves along well enough. This time, it's a long time friend of "Capt. Street" (Grant Withers) who comes a cropper and the two, along with pesky investigative journalist "Bobbie" (Marjorie Reynolds) must get to the bottom of things as the corpses begin, quite literally, to pile up! The production looks hastily thrown together, the lighting really needed a few more bucks in the meter and the script could have been doing with a little more substance. That said, it has the odd humorous touch and Reynolds is quite efficient in support of our not particularly dynamic duo. Watchable, but forgettable fayre.
Reviewed by classicsoncall 6 / 10

"Things happen to people who know too much."

Reviewed by timothymcclenaghan 5 / 10

Formulaic Fun

The Mr. Wong series borrows somewhat from the Torchy Blane series at Warner Bros., i.e. feisty female reporter annoying the police officer/boyfriend, but also key to solving the crime. A comment was made elsewhere about that character here having a "Lois Lane" moment. Torchy Blane was allegedly the inspiration for the Lois Lane character of Superman comics.A humorous, but probably unintentional, mistake shows up early in the film when Boris Karloff's darkening makeup is forgotten on his neck, giving him a two-tone head.Although one can disparage Karloff for these films, keep in mind that film actors then, as now, need and want work. There are plenty of other well-experienced actors appearing in the Mr. Wong films, whom you can see in better films at better studios in the 1930s, or even in later films.Although Karloff was making "B" films at Monogram and Columbia around this time, at least he had an "up" blip in his career when he played a major role in "Arsenic and Old Lace" on Broadway from 1941 to 1944.This film is no worse than the formulaic TV series we have now, both comedy and drama, TV now being today's equivalent of the "B" movies of yesterday.
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