Love these movies. Don't sleep well so I watch them late night and early mornings. Boris Karloff and Peter Lorrie are my favorites. Also love the old time radio shows. I am thrilled when I see young people who comment that they love these programs also.
The make-up on Boris Karloff is terrific, it is subtle, but effective. This series of who-done-it movies are very entertaining. I really appreciate having access to them!
Nonsense. How do you define "foul language"? Have you never heard of double entendre? What does "just clean" mean? What is wrong with nudity? There is great acting today. The things you seem to admire are the result of the censorship of the Hays Code. So, do you like censorship?
@@nedludd7622 I define foul language as words like poo-poo and doo-foo, and poo-poo-doo-doo derivatives, as well as all the various fuck-words. I hope this helps. Love, Buuuuurrrrpppp Reynolds
I’m going through a rough time at the moment. I’ve become disabled and need to use a chair, my husband of 34 years has decided a wife whose disabled is not a good look so he’s divorcing me, and my darling daughter has just lost her partner from a motorbike accident. I’m exhausted as I can’t sleep worrying about my daughter and how as a mother I can’t take her pain away, or make it better. This film has just given me a rest from worrying. Just watching this film and nothing else is what I needed I don’t watch television or go to the cinema as it’s all left wing woke rubbish You can’t beat a wonderful black and white film where sex, violence, and swearing is nowhere to be seen. I was thinking this was made just at the start of the Second World War. Boris Karloff is such a good actor, and I think I may be binge watching Mr Wong movies from now on. Thank you so much for downloading these films. If it wasn’t for people like you I’d have no idea what I’d be able to watch. It’s really appreciated
I couldn't help but reply to your comment because it's so incredibly touching. I am so sorry for the pain you are experiencing & the circumstances life has given you currently. 🙏 ❤ praying for you and your daughter as you move forward through this difficult time. I couldn't agree more, these old films are so comforting especially when most of the modern day films are either woke rubbish or remakes of the great films. ❤Praying for your strength to continue during this time & sending so much love your way. -Jessica
This is a response to your comment my dear... It's been a year and I can relate to you...I hope things have improved for you and that your daughter and you have one another... God Bless and healing.
I didn't know that Boris Karloff had played so many Mr. Wong movies. Just happened to run across them a few nights ago when I couldn't sleep. I started watching then, and the next thing I know it was 6 a.m....Wow it was great. The Mystery of Mr. Wong is one of my favorites. Thank you for posting them.
If you decide to buy these great old movies don't buy them from Alpha videos their DVD discs are the cheapest around and you get pixels the third you view them all the Alpha videos I have are crap and had to be replaced with other DVD's and I have top of the line DVD players.
this one was very artfully done, look at the corridor, the flower pieces, the maid in the mirror. if you have a taste for great photography you may admire "Laura" with Vincent Price, maybe you know it.
I love all these old movies Sherlock, Chan ,Mr Motto, and the old Dracula Bela lagosi , Frankenstein, Karloff, wolfram lon Chaney, the mummy Karloff i could go on and on
All of these movies from 1938 on up are such perfect quality uploads! Thank you so much. Which that others could do the same. I am beginning to believe that some actually make their uploads sooo blurry!
Wow, I finally watched a movie who is Mr. Wong never knew he was a detective in this movie I found this movie really interesting to watch watch it straight through without a pause, and I must watch more of Mr. Wong’s movies. I give it a four-star.❣️🌟🌟🌟🌟 Also, like to thank Pizza flicks for the upload and sharing…👍🏼👍🏼 for you thumbs up 💐🇨🇦
@@lordeden2732 really?! Something like that bothers you?? Thats too bad. Sorry about where you are at in life right now. I hope things get better for you friend.
I love any movie with Lotus Pearl Shibata in it. She was a beautiful and talented, and unfortunately, a significantly suppressed Japanese-American actress. RIP Lotus
+Whiskey River (Doc) Yes, a wonderful and very modern actress in her style. Quite lovely and very versatile- a pity the studios were so dull to such talent.
I've always known her as Lotus Long (her stage name) or as Karen Sorrell (another stage name). Had to look up Lotus Pearl Shibata to make sure it was the same person. Yes, she was a good actress - very likable in the Mr. Moto series as well. Wish she could have had more lead roles.
Most valuable star sapphire at the time of this movie was The Eye of the Universe (Star of India), 563 carats/10 ozs, also a cabochon. In 1939 it would have cost $17,000,000; $300,000,000 today. Asterism on both the front and back of the blue stone, it remains the most unusual although surpassed in size in 2012 by the 1404 carat Star of Adam, also worth $300 mil.
I'm a big Charlie Chan movie fan, and have watched them all several times, I was delighted to find these. Not sure Wong films are better but maybe as good for sure
Dorothy Tree was an old friend of my Mother In Law and I met her many times. She was married into a very wealthy family and gave up making movies. She was a better actress than she ever got credit for.
Love this era, something romantic and quaint about it, I'm sure it was just another year like any other, we seem to romanticize things from the past, or speaking for myself.
When this was made it was classed as a B movie. One that would be shown before the main feature. Or alternately as a filler between two showings. However it is an excellent mystery film. Full of shadows. Only wish such B films could be of this standard today.
In my day, the "B" movie was the one which was shown AFTER the main feature was shown. This was people had to get up for work the next morning. So, they wanted to see something from MGM or Paramount or Fox than something from Monogram, Republic or PRC. Clark Gable or Tyrone Power than Rod Cameron or Vera Rhuba Ralston.
This was more of a "C" which wouldn't be shown in a major (first run) theater, except maybe during the kiddie matinee. Karloff may have gotten it into some of the big houses.
Mr. Wong may not have been portrayed by a Chinese actor, but he was, according to some, played by an oriental - Boris Karloff was of Indian heritage (also, some say his natural darker skin, in part, contributed to his never having kissed a leading lady in his role as Mr. Wong...things were different in the era of 1930s America).
When Warner Oland (the original Charlie Chan) went to China, thousands of people showed up to see him. They absolutely loved him portrayal of the inscrutable detective.
Gee....from the start, one can say the Mr. Stroganoff had a 'Beef' to settle with the old husband, and Harrison most have thought he was the Rex, in the House with his 'my fair Lady',
In the first film Withers's character Captain Street was arrogant, blustering and obtuse in the extreme. It looks like someone must have decided to tone him down by the time they made this one. He's still got the same flaws but they're not so over-the-top.
Spoiler alert: Why didn't the police inspector stick with Wong when he went back to his house to open the letter? All the suspects came over but not the inspector, until right after the murder was solved. Weird.
We saw Dreena let herself in the front with a key, and Sing saw her. Then Stroganoff 🤗 says she came in the French doors. Gotta see how this gets tied up. Edit: Nope, not done.
@Southeastern777 You are a COPLETE moron if you think the protestors were paid by anyone. The only people being paid to divide our nation are YOUR "good, Christian elected officials" and they are paid legally by the corporations after you stacked the supreme courts and made it legal along with Gerrymandering as they promised to protect your 2nd amendment rights and the "unborn" ....neither of which have they done a damn thing about. My god you are a fool!
I'm a bit surprised at how modern a plot line this is: theft of antiquities and their repatriation is a rather modern take for the time period of this script. Setting aside the stock characters and pretty terrible dialogue, oh...and the tendency of actors of this period to think they were in a playhouse where they had to 'fill the room' with their voice. That was also partly due to the rather primitive sound equipment of the day and recording on set. Today a lot of dialogue is done after filming, in a sound studio, with the actors re-doing the scene dialogue in order to get a perfect recording, just like the way they add sound effects. All in all, these are damned good for their day. Lighting? Well...primitive is the word that comes to mind. Over-lit, under-lit, washed out, over saturated...pretty much did everything wrong that can be done wrong. In another ten years, movie production values were a hundred times better.
Outstanding production values to be a Monogram picture. By the time they made the Charlie Chan series with Sidney Toler production value was down the hill and those movies are painful to watch, unfortunately.
I love Boris, he was a great actor but he was another in a long list of non-Asian actors to portray an Asian character. Loved the Wong movies but how different it would have been with an Asian actor.
Anyone please answer: Was mr wong a takeoff from charlie chan or chan is a takeoff Of mr wong. Why the interest in the oriental detective was so great as to inspire these 2 series grow so much, at the time? I would think that at the time of tension with Japan and the ww2 looming that these characters would have been shunned. Anyone? History, please. M. Ignorant in IL.
Because in earlier films / books the villain was the chinese servant. Both were attempts from late 20's onwards to address the stereotype of the suspicious oriental.
I love Wong these movies are great, but their trying to make the husband into the bad guy as far as his relationship with his wife is concerned, only it's the wife who's leading all these men on, Peter, the pianist, wongs best friend and it's because of these flirtations that the husband is killed, so who was really the bad guy in all this? It's really great...
Love these movies. Don't sleep well so I watch them late night and early mornings. Boris Karloff and Peter Lorrie are my favorites. Also love the old time radio shows. I am thrilled when I see young people who comment that they love these programs also.
For you sleep problem, try taking melatonin. It is not a drug but a hormone produced in our bodies. As we age, it makes less. Look it up.
Same here!
I do the same sleep is relentless
Yes, me to! I love these old movies! William Powell is ultimate my favorite, but yes Boris and Peter are in my list if favorites as well!
Me too. Love laying down at night to listen. WISH THERE WERE ADULT SLUMBER PARTies where we could lay down in our pj's and listen to them.
The make-up on Boris Karloff is terrific, it is subtle, but effective. This series of who-done-it movies are very entertaining. I really appreciate having access to them!
What a great series of Mr Wong. I wish we still had movies like this today. No foul language, no nudity, just clean and great acting.
Well said Neil Campbell.
Fake
Nonsense. How do you define "foul language"? Have you never heard of double entendre? What does "just clean" mean? What is wrong with nudity? There is great acting today. The things you seem to admire are the result of the censorship of the Hays Code. So, do you like censorship?
@@nedludd7622 I define foul language as words like poo-poo and doo-foo, and poo-poo-doo-doo derivatives, as well as all the various fuck-words.
I hope this helps.
Love,
Buuuuurrrrpppp Reynolds
@@burpreynolds3250 Of what importance is your personal definition which does not even make sense? Geez, I did not know that prudes were still around.
All the old 40s 50s 60s scifi and horror is the best movies ever made. Such an original feel to them. The golden age of cinema.
What a consummate actor Karloff was. He could really play anything, from a monster to a mobster to a cunning detective.
so long as they were all Boris Karloff🤣🤣🤣
@@georgemoore7186 True.
Boris Karloff - the best! The consumate actor. Thanks for uploading a great movie.
I’m going through a rough time at the moment. I’ve become disabled and need to use a chair, my husband of 34 years has decided a wife whose disabled is not a good look so he’s divorcing me, and my darling daughter has just lost her partner from a motorbike accident.
I’m exhausted as I can’t sleep worrying about my daughter and how as a mother I can’t take her pain away, or make it better.
This film has just given me a rest from worrying. Just watching this film and nothing else is what I needed
I don’t watch television or go to the cinema as it’s all left wing woke rubbish
You can’t beat a wonderful black and white film where sex, violence, and swearing is nowhere to be seen.
I was thinking this was made just at the start of the Second World War.
Boris Karloff is such a good actor, and I think I may be binge watching Mr Wong movies from now on.
Thank you so much for downloading these films. If it wasn’t for people like you I’d have no idea what I’d be able to watch. It’s really appreciated
I couldn't help but reply to your comment because it's so incredibly touching. I am so sorry for the pain you are experiencing & the circumstances life has given you currently. 🙏 ❤ praying for you and your daughter as you move forward through this difficult time. I couldn't agree more, these old films are so comforting especially when most of the modern day films are either woke rubbish or remakes of the great films. ❤Praying for your strength to continue during this time & sending so much love your way. -Jessica
This is a response to your comment my dear...
It's been a year and I can relate to you...I hope things have improved for you and that your daughter and you have one another...
God Bless and healing.
I can't get enough of these wonderful movies! Thank you for posting it.
I didn't know that Boris Karloff had played so many Mr. Wong movies. Just happened to run across them a few nights ago when I couldn't sleep. I started watching then, and the next thing I know it was 6 a.m....Wow it was great. The Mystery of Mr. Wong is one of my favorites. Thank you for posting them.
Carlotta Thompson me too 😂😂
If you decide to buy these great old movies don't buy them from Alpha videos their DVD discs are the cheapest around and you get pixels the third you view them all the Alpha videos I have are crap and had to be replaced with other DVD's and I have top of the line DVD players.
@@parrot0051 Thanks for the heads up, Carl Mac!
this one was very artfully done, look at the corridor, the flower pieces, the maid in the mirror. if you have a taste for great photography you may admire "Laura" with Vincent Price, maybe you know it.
I did exact same thing !! Now its5:30 am...!!
Love these movies. I grew up on them, and glad that I did. Clean and decent.
Except for all da moidas. There was a lotta moida in them movies.
Love the old mysteries. Even when I was a child.
This was a good one.
I really like Boris Karloff and, 30's/40's mystery movies.
Thanks for posting!
Karloff, Channey and Lugossi were all great actors. RIP to these legends
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕🍕🍕
I agree they were my favorites a long with Vincent Price
This is one of the best Mr Wong movies!
I love all these old movies Sherlock, Chan ,Mr Motto, and the old Dracula Bela lagosi , Frankenstein, Karloff, wolfram lon Chaney, the mummy Karloff i could go on and on
I think you meant the Wolfman. Wolfram is the old name for tungsten.
One of the best...in this series.
No cussing just a lot of killing! I used to love to watch these old movies Saturday night when I was a kid and still do.
Yes, but killing without the blood and gore! Any age can watch these wonderful movies.
All of these movies from 1938 on up are such perfect quality uploads! Thank you so much.
Which that others could do the same. I am beginning to believe that some actually make their uploads sooo blurry!
Beautiful print you found. Marvelous.
For me this is right up there with Charly chan and Sherlock with Rathbone and Bruce , I love this era.
Wow, I finally watched a movie who is Mr. Wong never knew he was a detective in this movie I found this movie really interesting to watch watch it straight through without a pause, and I must watch more of Mr. Wong’s movies. I give it a four-star.❣️🌟🌟🌟🌟
Also, like to thank
Pizza flicks for the upload and sharing…👍🏼👍🏼 for you thumbs up 💐🇨🇦
I watch a "B" Movie every day...thanx so much for posting this one!
Robby Combs Like vitamins. Lol
Same here!
Good movie with a great plot. A lot of interesting plot twists. Karloff a great actor.
That was good. Never knew Boris Karloff played Mr Wong, thanks for sharing.😀
Absolutely superb quality upload!
Karloff insisted that Wong should not speak pidgeon -english, but rather fluently as Wong was well educated. Good Old Karloff! He was the best.
mxylpx nice! The way " Charlie Chan" talks bothers me so much; sounds like a robot trying to impersonate an Asian American.
@@haf816r Talked not talks as you sound like an idiot trying to imitate somebody intelligent!
Shame he also did not insist that Mr Wong WAS PLAYED BY A CHINESE MAN AND NOT A YANK!
@@haf816r Well if you bother to read the Charlie Chan mystery novels that is the way his speech was written.
@@lordeden2732 really?! Something like that bothers you?? Thats too bad. Sorry about where you are at in life right now. I hope things get better for you friend.
Cool old movie. Boris as a detective. Love it!
Then you might also like "Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954-56)" check it out ...
Boris is excellent !! So enjoyed watching him!!
Love 'em... and the Mr. Moto series....
Great films .love these classic b films.so well done.
This is a "C." Not for first-run theaters.
This is one of my favorite movies. It just clicks with me.
thanks .excellent film .i love finding one i have not seen.
These plots are really original. The one where has and globes were used as a murder weapon of really beyond its time
I love any movie with Lotus Pearl Shibata in it. She was a beautiful and talented, and unfortunately, a significantly suppressed Japanese-American actress. RIP Lotus
+Whiskey River (Doc) Yes, a wonderful and very modern actress in her style. Quite lovely and very versatile- a pity the studios were so dull to such talent.
DAMN SHAME NO-ONE LEARNT ANYTHING FROM her STORY
I've always known her as Lotus Long (her stage name) or as Karen Sorrell (another stage name). Had to look up Lotus Pearl Shibata to make sure it was the same person. Yes, she was a good actress - very likable in the Mr. Moto series as well. Wish she could have had more lead roles.
Boris Karloff was the master of horror and mystery.
He dominated the screen at his first appearance.
Most valuable star sapphire at the time of this movie was The Eye of the Universe (Star of India), 563 carats/10 ozs, also a cabochon. In 1939 it would have cost $17,000,000; $300,000,000 today. Asterism on both the front and back of the blue stone, it remains the most unusual although surpassed in size in 2012 by the 1404 carat Star of Adam, also worth $300 mil.
I'm a big Charlie Chan movie fan, and have watched them all several times, I was delighted to find these. Not sure Wong films are better but maybe as good for sure
Glad you found them. Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX
@@PizzaFLIX do I dare share or will the web cops shut them down ?
Charlie Chan films are better . I love Wong films also but Charles movies are very very good and better
@@lindayevoli6224 I agree. I think they were the standard to which other movies aspired.
Very good mystery!!
My favorite so far.
Dorothy Tree was an old friend of my Mother In Law and I met her many times. She was married into a very wealthy family and gave up making movies. She was a better actress than she ever got credit for.
That’s a great piece of information. Thanks for posting.
Wow. Lucky you. Thank you for sharing us that fact.
Incredible Boris Karloff is the good guy.
Great series! Thank tou for sharing it!
Who can resist the great Boris Karloff?
Who can resist the name "Stroganoff"? Just saying it makes me hungry!
Very entertaining and a good mystery.
Love this era, something romantic and quaint about it, I'm sure it was just another year like any other, we seem to romanticize things from the past, or speaking for myself.
When this was made it was classed as a B movie. One that would be shown before the main feature.
Or alternately as a filler between two showings. However it is an excellent mystery film. Full of shadows.
Only wish such B films could be of this standard today.
In my day, the "B" movie was the one which was shown AFTER the main feature was shown. This was people had to get up for work the next morning. So, they wanted to see something from MGM or Paramount or Fox than something from Monogram, Republic or PRC. Clark Gable or Tyrone Power than Rod Cameron or Vera Rhuba Ralston.
Yes, and they could pack an awful lot of story into 75 minutes or less.
This was more of a "C" which wouldn't be shown in a major (first run) theater, except maybe during the kiddie matinee. Karloff may have gotten it into some of the big houses.
Yay I found something new with The Wonderful Boris Karlof in..I know this series is not new..but I've never seen them before 😂
I liked this storyline without the newspaper reporter chasing everything.
The first Mr. Wong movie stared Keye Luke but, he didn't have the star power draw so they had Boris Karloff play Mr. Wong.
The sound is low on this episode. But great plot and detective.
Today’s actors couldn’t survive in black n white. Ya gotta have talent
And the world is flat.
EXACTLY!!!
I believe that as fact. The cell-phone cameras have brainwashed everyone too.
@@martinda7446 They had faceds then.
@@deborahduthie4519 Have you ever worked in showbiz? Things have not changed much. What do cell phones have to do with the movies?
...Wow, this was a good one!...
Imagine a good movie without nudity and f this and f that in it. They managed to do it 80 years ago.
I do like pizza flix a lot.
the Indians didnt like progress either so you better calm Down...LOL ha..
This younger generation likes it trashy...the filthier the better.
Hey. I'm 66 and I like it trashy and filthy too.
Yes! The pre 1934 code films were complete trash!
Thanks 👍👏🏻👏🏻✊👌
Lotus Long played a good part.
Boris is always charming.
BEEN WATCHING THIS MAN SINCE I AWS 6 AND IM 56
Empfehlenswert. Gutes Bild, klare, verständliche Sprache.
Great picture ...🦁
thanks for sharing
watched on my roku stick, good quality video. Thanks!
What is a roku stick? Thanks
It is sort of like amazon TV. But by now you probably know all of this.
Trusting everybody to speak the truth is really unbelievavle.
Thnx Pizzaflix, another gem.
I think this is a loose remake of Murder at Midnight (1931). However, I still like the movie and yes, the quality is great.
LOL. The movie that the skit in this movie was based upon. That would be a hoot.
Excellent 👍
at least as good as I expected
I always think it's funny how the cops talk to people in these old movies. Snappy, rude and accusing. That wouldn't go over today.
No, today they just murder them.
Love Boris Karloff as Wong, but they certainly didn't secure a crime scene very well back then. Too many people skulking around.
Mr. Wong may not have been portrayed by a Chinese actor, but he was, according to some, played by an oriental - Boris Karloff was of Indian heritage (also, some say his natural darker skin, in part, contributed to his never having kissed a leading lady in his role as Mr. Wong...things were different in the era of 1930s America).
When Warner Oland (the original Charlie Chan) went to China, thousands of people showed up to see him. They absolutely loved him portrayal of the inscrutable detective.
Gee....from the start, one can say the Mr. Stroganoff had a 'Beef' to settle with the old husband, and Harrison most have thought he was the Rex, in the House with his 'my fair Lady',
In the first film Withers's character Captain Street was arrogant, blustering and obtuse in the extreme. It looks like someone must have decided to tone him down by the time they made this one. He's still got the same flaws but they're not so over-the-top.
Fun to Watch !!!
At 32:29 mention is made of paper stock used for a note, having been made from the fabled "..rice paper tree.."
Well as it is made from the cassava root which is a tree like shrub not far out description!
Admittedly more of a bonsai tree but still appears in some cases like a tree
A's in my book!
Very well made movie. Even though I prefer Charlie Chan :)
Love these old B&W movies.
But even back then, couldn't they have smelt the gun to see if it had been fired?
Someone enlighten me, please. :)
Stroganoff, name cracks me up.😂
fascinating
Spoiler alert: Why didn't the police inspector stick with Wong when he went back to his house to open the letter? All the suspects came over but not the inspector, until right after the murder was solved. Weird.
Thanks!
We saw Dreena let herself in the front with a key, and Sing saw her. Then Stroganoff 🤗 says she came in the French doors. Gotta see how this gets tied up. Edit: Nope, not done.
would ve enjoyed this movie more if I havent seen murder at midnight
I love Mr. Dong!
Grant Withers left a suicide note that read: "Please forgive me, my family. I was so unhappy. It's better this way."
35:48 Wong calls out his cop pal for his "politically incorrect" remark, in 1939! Bust his chops Wong!
Or like Portland or Seattle, today!
@Southeastern777 You are a COPLETE moron if you think the protestors were paid by anyone. The only people being paid to divide our nation are YOUR "good, Christian elected officials" and they are paid legally by the corporations after you stacked the supreme courts and made it legal along with Gerrymandering as they promised to protect your 2nd amendment rights and the "unborn" ....neither of which have they done a damn thing about. My god you are a fool!
@@prototype9887 Nah. let's all go back to Atlanta and Dallas of the 50s and 60s. Sorry, no.
I got no sound here. what happen to sound please.
Use ear or headphones, and you'll be able to hear and listen to it 🙂
great
Very poor and low quality audio. Great old movie except for the audio.
Imagine how good this would be with nudity and swearing!
I bet this was on the big screen first-Boris was handsome-especially in coat n tie
Ah, the days when smoking was elegant!
I'm a bit surprised at how modern a plot line this is: theft of antiquities and their repatriation is a rather modern take for the time period of this script. Setting aside the stock characters and pretty terrible dialogue, oh...and the tendency of actors of this period to think they were in a playhouse where they had to 'fill the room' with their voice. That was also partly due to the rather primitive sound equipment of the day and recording on set. Today a lot of dialogue is done after filming, in a sound studio, with the actors re-doing the scene dialogue in order to get a perfect recording, just like the way they add sound effects. All in all, these are damned good for their day. Lighting? Well...primitive is the word that comes to mind. Over-lit, under-lit, washed out, over saturated...pretty much did everything wrong that can be done wrong. In another ten years, movie production values were a hundred times better.
Outstanding production values to be a Monogram picture. By the time they made the Charlie Chan series with Sidney Toler production value was down the hill and those movies are painful to watch, unfortunately.
Monogram was a tiny company. They had to watch the nickels.
""Was she a maid in China " brilliant !!
Ian Kings Hahahaha
Volume is way OFF (LOW)
Anyone else feel hungry hearing the name stroganoff? I haven't made it in years but think I will now.
Awesome! Loved when Americans could play any race. It’s just good acting is all hollyweird. Take note.
Boris Karloff wasn't American.
I love Boris, he was a great actor but he was another in a long list of non-Asian actors to portray an Asian character. Loved the Wong movies but how different it would have been with an Asian actor.
IT WOULD BEEN NICE TO HAVE AN ASIAN PLAY WONG.
THEY DID HAVE A LOT ASIANS ACTORS.
Agree completely! PC run amuck.
Anyone please answer:
Was mr wong a takeoff from charlie chan or chan is a takeoff Of mr wong. Why the interest in the oriental detective was so great as to inspire these 2 series grow so much, at the time? I would think that at the time of tension with Japan and the ww2 looming that these characters would have been shunned. Anyone? History, please.
M. Ignorant in IL.
Because in earlier films / books the villain was the chinese servant. Both were attempts from late 20's onwards to address the stereotype of the suspicious oriental.
Charlie Chan appeared in six novels by Earl Derr Biggers, starting in the 1920's. (A novel is a book, with a lot of words, which tells a story.)
I love Wong these movies are great, but their trying to make the husband into the bad guy as far as his relationship with his wife is concerned, only it's the wife who's leading all these men on, Peter, the pianist, wongs best friend and it's because of these flirtations that the husband is killed, so who was really the bad guy in all this? It's really great...
they're.... just saying....take care
SCORE FOR WONG WITH HIS SIKE OUT TECHNIQUE.