Mr. Wong in Chinatown

1939

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 39% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1082 1.1K

mr. wong

Director

William Nigh Photo
William Nigh

Top cast

Angelo Rossitto Photo
Angelo Rossitto as Mute Dwarf
Marjorie Reynolds Photo
Marjorie Reynolds as Bobbie Logan
Lee Tung Foo Photo
Lee Tung Foo as Willie
Huntley Gordon Photo
Huntley Gordon as Mr. Davidson
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647.23 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 10 min
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1.17 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 10 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

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."

Reviewed by utgard14 5 / 10

Slow going but watchable

A Chinese princess coming to Mr. Wong for help is killed in his home by a poisoned dart. This movie introduces a clichéd nosy reporter character, Bobbie Logan, played by the beautiful Marjorie Reynolds. She would appear in the rest of the Wong films. I take it as a sign they knew the Wong series wasn't working quite right and felt it needed some more side characters. Perhaps they just wanted to rip off Torchy Blane. Who knows? Grant Withers returns as Captain Street. He doesn't bark as much as he usually does, except when Bobbie's around. She's his girlfriend and he wants her to stay out of trouble. Another Torchy Blane similarity. Curiously, 1939 was also the year Torchy Blane in Chinatown was released. This is a watchable movie, as all the Wongs are, but nothing special.
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