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Doomed to Die

  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 8 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
5,5/10
1491
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Doomed to Die (1940)
CrimeDramaMysteryThriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuMr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.

  • Regie
    • William Nigh
  • Drehbuch
    • Ralph Gilbert Bettison
    • Michael Jacoby
    • Hugh Wiley
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Boris Karloff
    • Marjorie Reynolds
    • Grant Withers
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    5,5/10
    1491
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    • Regie
      • William Nigh
    • Drehbuch
      • Ralph Gilbert Bettison
      • Michael Jacoby
      • Hugh Wiley
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Boris Karloff
      • Marjorie Reynolds
      • Grant Withers
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    • 20Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • James Lee Wong
    Marjorie Reynolds
    Marjorie Reynolds
    • Bobbie Logan
    Grant Withers
    Grant Withers
    • Bill Street
    William Stelling
    William Stelling
    • Dick Fleming
    Catherine Craig
    Catherine Craig
    • Cynthia Wentworth
    Guy Usher
    Guy Usher
    • Paul Fleming
    Henry Brandon
    Henry Brandon
    • Victor Martin
    Melvin Lang
    Melvin Lang
    • Cyrus Wentworth
    Wilbur Mack
    Wilbur Mack
    • Matthews
    Kenneth Harlan
    Kenneth Harlan
    • Ludlow
    Richard Loo
    Richard Loo
    • Tong Leader
    Tristram Coffin
    Tristram Coffin
    • Mr. Baldwin
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Mike Donovan
    • Detective Mike
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    Gibson Gowland
    Gibson Gowland
    • Doctor
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    Jack Kennedy
    • Police Sgt. Casey
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Maxine Leslie
    • Miss Reed
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Moy Ming
    Moy Ming
    • Aged Tong Member
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    Angelo Rossitto
    Angelo Rossitto
    • Newsboy in Montage
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    • Regie
      • William Nigh
    • Drehbuch
      • Ralph Gilbert Bettison
      • Michael Jacoby
      • Hugh Wiley
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    8Vampenguin

    Cant go "Wong" here!

    As far as mystery B-movies go, you cant go "Wong" with this one. Karloff returns once again as the famous Chinese detective James Lee Wong to solve the murder of a shipping tycoon. What seems like an open and shut case to Capt. Street (Grant Withers) quickly becomes a web of deceit, lies and murder! I've only seen two Wong films, this and "The Fatal Hour", but I really enjoyed them both, largely due to Capt. Street and his "sidekick" reporter Bobbie Logan. The banter between them is cliché, but often pretty funny anyway. They have great chemistry together on screen. Karloff is, of course, great as Wong. I loved his entrances from the most unlikely places, such as windows or fire escapes. The plot was pretty straight forward, though it was full of red-herrings and false suspects that made the conclusion a bit hard to guess. Not that that's a bad thing mind you, I quite enjoyed the ending. To sum up, I recommend this as well as the slightly better "Fatal Hour" as two of the best mystery B-movies you'll find out there.

    8/10
    6Coventry

    An intriguing murder-mystery at first... then a Boris Karloff one-man-show!

    For the fifth and last time, the great Boris Karloff portrays the oriental super-detective James Lee Wong who effortlessly solves the murder cases for which his police colleague Capt. Street (Grant Withers) always manages to arrest the wrong guy. Cyrus Wentworth, the magnate of a giant shipping company has been shot in his office and the obvious suspect is the young Dick Fleming, who's both the son of Cyrus' biggest business rival AND the forbidden lover of his daughter. The always-meddling reporter Miss Logan asks Wong to investigate the case and he naturally discovers that Wentworth had a lot more enemies who wanted him death, like relatives of victims who were recently killed in a shipping accident or former employees who attempted to blackmail him. The story opens downright terrific, with a great characterization of Cyrus Wentworth and his possible assassins. After about 15 minutes, Boris Karloff walks in and from that moment on he monopolizes all the attention! Of course Wong foresees the killer's every possible move and of course he always is several steps ahead of Capt. Street's investigation. Normally this exaggerated amount of 'cleverness' would annoy me tremendously; but Karloff's performance is so good and the script is so light-headed that you easily forgive all the illogicalness. The dialogues are wit and often humorous (the constant arguments of reporter Logan and police Capt. Street) and the sequences set in Chinatown are atmospheric, as usual. "Doomed to Die" is a very cheap but worthwhile thriller, especially recommended to fans of well-structured detective films and admirers of the almighty Boris Karloff. One more Wong-movie got released after this, made by a different director and not starring Karloff.
    whpratt1

    KARLOFF SAVES THIS PICTURE!

    The routine plot unfolds in so obvious a manner that one loses interest in the outcome. The production values are on the same level as they were in the other Wong pictures in the...series, and the performances are on a par with the material. Most of the comedy is provoked by the bickering between a detective and a young girl who tires to outwit him.. Boris Karloff saves this picture and makes it into another great classic series.
    5secondtake

    Some light comedy, some Karloff, some dark night stuff...a passable whodunnit!

    Doomed to Die (1940)

    Oh boy, poor Boris Karloff. He's the star, and the one great presence, in this cobbled together movie, the last of Karloff's Mr. Wong movies. Someone edited the heck out of this one, and the complex plot gets hard to follow (and hard to believe!) in the hour it takes from start to finish.

    That's not to say it's a bad movie. It's kind of fun, actually, and because so much is going on, you really have to pay attention, as the scenes keep changing and changing, and more and more characters appear and reappear. The plot itself is forced on things, with red herrings that are absurd and a huge disaster in the opening scenes that ultimately means little to the rest of it, or so it seems to me. There is deliberate comedy which is sometimes funny, and gives the movie an airiness that works pretty well.

    Karloff, amazingly, plays a Chinese detective, and they do something to his eyes to make him more Asian, but otherwise he's very Karloff, which is good. There are some brief scenes in a so-called Chinatown, but nothing so colorful as, say, the end of "Lady from Shanghai." No, this is from a thoroughly B-movie series of six Mr. Wong films, all but one, with Karloff as Wong. There are at least two other series of films with Asian detectives, an interesting sub-genre, for sure. There are eight Mr. Moto films (with Peter Lorre) around the same time (late 1930s), and there are the almost countless Charlie Chan films (first in the earlier 30s with Warner Oland, and then the late 30s into the 40s starring Sidney Toler). All of these stars were not Asian, but that's the way Hollywood compromised its bigotry with its sense of what the mainstream American audiences wanted.

    The thing that makes these Karloff films still watchable is their gritty urban settings, and the whodunnit quality that can hold even a mediocre movie together on a Sunday afternoon. "Doomed to Die" has some very dark night scenes (a third of the movie) and if they did that to save money on set design, that's fine with me because it makes them moody and inky. Nice.

    Check out this rather nice Mr. Wong site:

    cheddarbay.com/0000celebrityfiles/films/wong/wong.html

    Take them for what they are and you might end up watching all of them!
    6jcholguin

    Another fine film in the Mr. Wong series

    The threesome of Mr. Wong, Det. Street and reporter Barbara Logan all return in this installment of the Mr. Wong series. All are wonderful and work well in this murder mystery. A shooting murder of a father by the unwanted son-in-law because the father has rejected him as his daughter's choice as husband. Both were heard shouting in the same room by two witnesses. Det. Street believes it is an open and shut case but Mr. Wong disagrees as well as reporter Logan. Many suspects with a score to settle make this whodunit a mystery to the end.

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    • Wissenswertes
      The images of the burning of the fictitious liner Wentworth Castle is taken from actual news footage of the burning of the liner SS Morro Castle. The Morro Castle caught fire on 8 September 1934 during a trip from Havana to New York. The heavy loss of life combined with the beaching of the gutted hulk in New Jersey made it one of the biggest news stories of the day.
    • Patzer
      In the Tong room scene with Wong, it's obvious that all of the scene, except the "Wentworth Castle" dialogue, was re-used from a previous Wong movie. The most notable clue is the Tong leader changing appearance between shots.
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      Bobbie Logan: So you still think you've solved it, huh?

      Bill Street: That's right, I do. Young Fleming did it and if he didn't, I'll eat my hat.

      Bobbie Logan: I'll see that you do.

    • Verbindungen
      Edited into Who Dunit Theater: Mr. Wong Doomed to Die (2021)

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      • 12. August 1940 (Vereinigte Staaten)
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      • Englisch
      • Französisch
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      • Monogram Pictures
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