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Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

To understand why the Mr. Wong series exists, you have to remember that the Charlie Chan series predated this one. Both are detective series but the Chan series had to change when Warner Oland died and Sidney Toler took over. Monogram studios which was always a small studio in Hollywood was the production studio for both Chan and now Mr. Wong. The best thing about this series was the casting of Boris Karloff as Wong and it is eerie how close to Chan he appears in the films.This one and some of the others the cast includes Marjorie Reynolds, a pretty fair actress as the woman reporter. The real treat here is the casting of Jason Robards Sr. Now mostly forgotten, it was his son, Jason Robards Jr. that became more famous, but this was his dad. Both father and son are gone now, but they did provide a lot of entertainment. Robards Sr. was in a Warner Oland Chan film, and actually had more picture roles than Jr. but the majority of them were up much earlier than his son. Robards Jr. has another son Robards The third, who is more active behind the camera than in front of it.This film pretty much fits Mr. Wong into a mystery he solves very much in the style of Charlie Chan. One thing that is a shame is the last film of the Wong series replaced Karloff with Keye Luke who is Chan's son in that series. That one was a historic first as Luke was the only Wong who was ethnically right for the series. This did not go over and the Wong series was canceled after that film.This film benefits from all the prior work Monogram had with this type of film, and the presence of Boris and other experienced hands.

When a friend and fellow police officer is murdered, Captain Bill Street (Grant Withers) turns to Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) for help. Wong's investigation leads him to uncover a smuggling ring. Because the story here is personal for his character, Grant Withers gets a chance to flex his acting muscles for the first time in the series. He wasn't nominated for an Academy Award, which surely must have been an oversight on the part of the Academy. Surely. But don't think the dramatic storyline means Street doesn't find time to yell at his girlfriend, Torchy Blane rip-off Bobbie Logan (pretty Marjorie Reynolds). Another watchable entry in the Mr. Wong series, which was never anything exceptional. Any movie with Boris Karloff is always worth watching once.

Now here's a good mystery film starring Boris Karloff as Inspector Wong, 'the Chinese Copper' as one non-PC character calls him. Here, he's helping out the San Francisco police track down the killer of an undercover cop, who's been killed while working for a smuggling racket. Wong teams up with Detective Street and a journalist named Logan (well, she always snooping around at least) and heads off to the place the copper was last seen – The Neptune Bar.The owner of the bar, Hard Way Harry, is a wise guy who looks like he did for the copper, but there are other spanners in the works – A piece of jade Wong finds leads him to a jeweller who's in debt, and who's son is hanging around the Neptune Bar with a piece of skirt Hard Way Harry knows. At first I was scratching my head trying to understand what was going on (and spending a lot of time wondering what age Jason Robards would be when he appeared – turned out it was his dad…I'm so stupid), but then things start to gel as the killer started taking out some witnesses and what not.So Wong's got a race against time to find out who the killer actually is (the killer even kills a guy at the police station) - eventually he figures it out, but even then he might be too late as the killer has figured him out too! This quick moving thriller was a lot of fun to watch, as there's plenty of red herrings, twists, and suspenseful noir-ish set pieces to enjoy. A nice surprise, this one, as I expected to be a bit bored (it's another non-horror included in Mill Creek's 50 Horror Classics - essential for folks curious about old films).There's your plug, Mill Creek - send money to Bezenby, 12 Biscuit Island, Button Moon.

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.