Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Doomed to Die (1940), William Nigh.


Two cliches: the "Chinese" detective and the spunky female reporter.

Let's just be glad that Boris Karloff didn't go with the Chinky Chinky China Man accent.  Dull B-mystery told through static, unimaginative shots from the Let's Just Stand Around and Someone Can Film This school of film-making.  The owner of a shipping company is found dead after one of his passenger ships goes down in a fire, and nobody knows if it's murder or suicide.  When the over enthusiastic chief of police hastily arrests a competitor's son, Mr Wong is hired to find the real killer.  A later entry in the Mr Wong series.

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