Pretty good potboiler, held together by a very credible teamup of Keye Luke as Mr. Wong and Grant Withers as Capt. Street. Too bad they did not make a few more of these. Loved the footage of the expedition. It was great to see Keye Luke get a starring role, nearly half a century later he will be the unfogettable blind Master Po of the Kung Fu series on TV
seriously, he was in the Kung Fu series? He came to my attention via the Charlie Chan clips here on RUclips, as I'm sure is the case with many who familiar with Keye Luke.
I suspect that the desert film footage shown at the beginning of the movie was from the Gobi Desert expeditions made by the American Museum of Natural History scientist Roy Chapman Andrews between 1922 and 1925. If memory serves, they discovered the first clutch of dinosaur eggs ever found. This movie was great fun to watch. Keye Luke did a fine job as Jimmy Wong..... perceptive, friendly, and a good sense of humor. Wong's cook was wonderful and always a pleasure to watch with his sarcastic wit.
It's a damn shame we didn't see more of Keye and Pearl (Lotus) Shibata through the years. They were both quite enjoyable in the films they did, and much more talented than the studios gave them credit for........
They are enjoyable, but this film was released in 1940. The war soon followed and that probably eliminated Asians in starring roles for ten years or more. In any case, studios don't care about talent, they care about ticket sales. It's not personal, it's just business.
@hoodiewoman louisiana right they've always put whites in the place of Asians Mexicans and Native Americans. And let's not talk about black facing. And they still do.
@@rrich52806 get the fuck off my comment ok I'm not going converse with you about this ok? I've been through way too much to deal with you trolling weirdos.
Just a classic from day one. Got me hooked when I was a kid even without Boris. The sound was improved so vey good movie. . Wish they would make more just like this same format even.
And~ who cares? If an actor of any nationality can do the role entertainingly, what difference does his national origin make? I loved both early 'Charlie Chans' because they were fun. The third guy was not suited for the role.
@@DavidRice111 no actor of another race can respectfully play a different race. As for who cares? Those who find black face and "rice face" racist and disrespectful. So again just to be clear, I CARE WHICH IS WHY I MADE THE COMMENT
@@kimberlyharris2109Actors ACT. Portraying someone of a different race is a talent. Agreed that it should done without malice, but those who overreact are usually not of the race in question. If East Asians have a problem with things like this, they can speak for themselves. It's insulting to assume they are voiceless sheep who have no backbone just because of their race. As a Native American, I'm put off by White folks who think they have to speak up for me. I can do fine on my own.
@@kimberlyharris2109They can speak for themselves. I'm sure they don't like people pitying them to feel better about themselves as though they're being a hero. As a Native American, I find it disrespectful when people do that.
The only time an Asian starred & played the lead during this period. Karloff played the lead in the previous Mr. Wong films. It is a shame Keye Luke never again starred in a leading role. This is another favorite Monogram. of mine.
What a shame the futures of America and China couldn't have turned out so different from the way the did & more in line with the respect and goodwill in this film. Great, old movie.
This was the last installment in the "Wong" film series. After Boris Karloff's contract expired, he declined to perform in any further episodes. As a result, despite Keye Luke's fine performance, audiences and theater operators alike lost interest in the series, which therefore came to an end.
The saddest part of all this is that Luke was signed on for four more Mr. Wong films. The only reason he didn't get to do them was because people didn't want to watch a movie without Boris Karloff.
This is one of only two films from back then I have seen from back then where Chinese Americans had the leads, and where there was no yellowface. The other was "Daughter of Shanghai", which starred Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn. Both were great movies.
Enjoyable and plesantly surprising, a Asian detective hero played by an actual Asian and an lovely Asian co-star plaing an intelligent female role. Very progressive for the 1940's..
Can't help but admire that first directive of Western Archeological Scholarship upon completing an exhaustive search far and wide: "At last, we've discovered the centuries lost tomb! Let's tear it apart haphazardly with pick axes and rifle its contents!"
Alex Gregis +Alex Gregis Yes indeed, there are some really dreadful past (hopefully, for the most part) practices treated as completely "normal" in these old yet still beautifully filmed black and white movies, aren't there? I guess the blatantly condescending racism (as in this film's portrayal of multiple Chinese stereotypes - even down to the style of the font in the credits) would have been a more noteworthy observation for me to have made, but it was so blatant and widespread that I believe most thinking and empathetic human beings can nowadays see that flaw right off the bat - one hopes, anyhow. Thanks, by the way, for being so courteous in your comment. That's a rare contribution in these internet comment threads, so your effective effort in very civil discourse is as much appreciated as it is uncommon!
Alex Gregis Alex Gregis Watch out, my friend, or you'll find yourself preceding those "moving pictures" of Thomas Edison and Eadweard Muybridge. (And isn't "Eadweard" one helluva funny way to simply spell "Edward"? - ah, the British!)
Mine was Sen Young, "Hop Sing" of Bonanza. Young had such youthful exuberance it completed the role. Besides, his interaction with Mantan Moreland was simply fun to watch.
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 I bought the 1st volume of Mr. Moto movies. I watched them, and I like them. I liked "Mysterious Mr. Moto" the most. I still need the 2nd volume.
Great Movie, but the sound is too low! They need to pump up the volume on this !!! They don't do themselves any favors by not having the sound/volume loud enough, because you can always turn the sound down, but when its too low, you can just forget it, because its not going to get any better or louder!!!
very mistreated and then idiot david caradine destroyed the holliwood oriental community MF not to mention the kf orchestra composer, set gun masters and the American Western film industry..... M F .
Oh - so it is a continuation of the Mr. Wong movies which had Boris Karloff, at first - and that's why the name Captain Street sounded so familiar to me - I remember him from all the "Mr. Wong" movies...
A little continuity please. Since Lt. Street had met and used Mr. Wong five times before this he would have recognized Mr. Wong even if he wasn't being played by Boris Karloff.
I wish they would have had Boris Karloff in this role Grant Withers still was Street unless Karloff was tired of his role as Mr Wong, too bad I love these Mr Wong shows.
That's only assuming that this is in the same continuity of the dates that the movies came out. But really, not all of these old movies (or later TV shows) had the best continuity.
Chop suey is Americanized "chow mein," which, itself may be a Portuguese version of yet another Chinese dish. Both names are sort of a joke on those who think they are "Chinese" dishes.
JOHN LLOYD CHOP SUEY IS A DISH FROM THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA. DURING THE GOLD RUSH THERE A CHINESE LAUNDRY MAN IN A MINING CAMP WAS ASKED BY A MINER WHO WAS TOO TIRED TO COOK; WHAT KIND OF DISH OF FOOD DID HE (THE CHINESE MAN ) HAVE. THE CHINESE MAN REPLIED "CHOP SUEY" IN BADLY BROKEN ENGLISH. WHAT HE MEANT WAS FOOD THAT IS CHOPPED UP FOR THE PIGS (SUEY), THE MINER OFFERED TO BUY IT THINKING IT WAS VEGETABLES AND RICE. THE LAUNDRYMAN STARTED TO FEED THE MINERS BECAUSE IT PAID BETTER. THE NAME STUCK. TRUE STORY
henochparks its not a true story that is a myth Its an actual dish from china en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey anthropologist E. N. Anderson, a scholar of Chinese food, traces the dish to tsap seui ("miscellaneous leftovers"), common in Taishan (Toisan), a county in Guangdong province, the home of many early Chinese immigrants to the United States.
@@richardlegault5644 I checked the Wikipedia article and Anderson's comment seems to be perfectly correct. Guandong is the correct spelling of what used to be called Canton. The language there is still called Cantonese, as opposed to Mandarin, which is spoken in Beijing. There are many so-called "dialects" of Chinese, but they really should be considered separate languages. Yes, most of the Chinese who came over in the 19th century to build the railroads spoke Cantonese, and that is still what is heard spoken in San Francisco's Chinatown today. Also "tsap" would be an older transliteration into the Roman alphabet; today it would be spelled "qap." The "q" (or "ts") is pronounced like a very soft "ch." Incidentally, "Tsing Tao" beer today would be spelled "Qing Dao." The correct pronunciation would be "Ch'ing Dao." (The apostrophe represents a softening of the "ch" sound.) I don't speak either Mandarin or Cantonese, although I have studied each briefly.
"how much" / "two dollars even" mustabeen a full tank. when i started driving 1972-73 (vw bug) gas was 37¢ a gallon expensive. btw Great Movie !! so good to see Master Po and Miss Lotus the american treasures so many despise . ps gotta get some of the original novels in print.. thanks for this jewel.
Another great classic ive admired the acting performance of keye Luke ive seen him in the charlie chan videos side by side w the great comic himself, mantan just awesome to watch 😮😅😊
I so agree! It was wonderful to hear a joke challenging the western assumption White people rule the world - right up there with the old joke about the Lone Ranger and Tonto surrounded by hostile Indians: "what do you mean "we," White Man?" 🤣
Love these oldies. Keye luke....before he became a monk LOL....he would have had no trouble with that fellow if he already did "Kung Fu". Haha. Anyway...awesome film...thanks for the upload.
So cool and synchronous in a way to see Keye Luke as Wong, finally the lead detective his character always wanted to be as #1 son in the Chan films. Only the 2nd time during the Asian detective frenzy, the 1st being the 1926 Chan serial, that an Asian was cast in the lead as opposed to Karloff, Orland, Lorre, Toler, et al.
according to imbd this was the last of series of 6 movies, Karloff couldn't do this one so Keye Luke stepped in and did an excellent job. Funny that Street first asked him his name and did not have a reaction when he said James Lee Wong..
(( 💿 )) I am wondering if you can get any of Charlie Chan movies on dvd, surely I would like to have them. These are great, timeless, wonderful and enjoyable to watch.
@pierusofpella Well with all the lead characters in the Mr Wong films Karloff did a great job, with that not so bright detective Street and a headline grabbing woman reporter the Mr Wong films is a great get away from our hectic world of today.
It's okay to say "Englishman" and "Frenchman", so why not "Chinaman"? Same with "oriental". That just means "eastern". "Occidental" means "western". I certainly wouldn't be offended if someone called me "occidental".
Boris Karloff played a very stereotyped version of Detective Wong. Keye Luke played this as less "inscrutable" and more intelligent. It is hard to tell what would have happened if the war with Japan had not started. It could have changed the whole mindset toward Asians. This could have been his breakout like Bruce Lee after reprising Keye Luke's role as Kato with the Green Hornet.
Umm... That was done because the original audience was compromised of English-speakers. It would make little sense to have them speaking a Chinese dialect that they couldn't understand.
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 No es obligatorio saber idiomas para ver una película. Lo lógico, sobre todo cuando de puede apreciar en países de habla hispana es que se pueda apreciar con el Subtitulado. Su respuesta está fuera de lugar.
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 No es obligatorio saber idiomas para ver una película. Lo lógico, sobre todo cuando de puede apreciar en países de habla hispana es que se pueda apreciar con el Subtitulado. Su respuesta está fuera de lugar.
I like this movie but the name always throws me then when it gets to the part where they use the hospital room to nab the crooks then I remember that I had seen it before,because first time I saw it was at this part when it was seen,still a good movie mystery??!!!!!!
![Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939) [Crime] [Mystery]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ca8O8LktYiQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![Lady Gangster (1942) [Film Noir] [Drama] [Crime]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yVUTfg2WTmA/mqdefault.jpg)
Boy! How cinema has changed! We need to appreciate these movies from the time they came.
I hope Keye Luke is given the full recognition he deserves one day. A real trailblazer.
Good fun. Keye Luke is one of my favorite movie stars.
Pretty good potboiler, held together by a very credible teamup of Keye Luke as Mr. Wong and Grant Withers as Capt. Street. Too bad they did not make a few more of these.
Loved the footage of the expedition.
It was great to see Keye Luke get a starring role, nearly half a century later he will be the unfogettable blind Master Po of the Kung Fu series on TV
That is very interesting and thanks for that little tid bit!!
I didn't know that, thanks
seriously, he was in the Kung Fu series? He came to my attention via the Charlie Chan clips here on RUclips, as I'm sure is the case with many who familiar with Keye Luke.
There were 5 other "Mr. Wong"s before this, but Boris Karloff had the lead rôle.
Oh Phillip Ahn played the other Master, Master Kan.
I suspect that the desert film footage shown at the beginning of the movie was from the Gobi Desert expeditions made by the American Museum of Natural History scientist Roy Chapman Andrews between 1922 and 1925. If memory serves, they discovered the first clutch of dinosaur eggs ever found. This movie was great fun to watch. Keye Luke did a fine job as Jimmy Wong..... perceptive, friendly, and a good sense of humor. Wong's cook was wonderful and always a pleasure to watch with his sarcastic wit.
It's a damn shame we didn't see more of Keye and Pearl (Lotus) Shibata through the years. They were both quite enjoyable in the films they did, and much more talented than the studios gave them credit for........
They are enjoyable, but this film was released in 1940. The war soon followed and that probably eliminated Asians in starring roles for ten years or more. In any case, studios don't care about talent, they care about ticket sales. It's not personal, it's just business.
@hoodiewoman louisiana right they've always put whites in the place of Asians Mexicans and Native Americans. And let's not talk about black facing. And they still do.
@@kimberlyharris2109 Only all lives matter Princess
@hoodiewoman louisiana You have white guilt?
@@rrich52806 get the fuck off my comment ok I'm not going converse with you about this ok? I've been through way too much to deal with you trolling weirdos.
I’m actually related to Keye Luke!
Greeting you with honor.....
Everyone did a good job in this movie and it was enjoyable for sure. Once again thanks for the show!
Just a classic from day one. Got me hooked when I was a kid even without Boris. The sound was improved so vey good movie. . Wish they would make more just like this same format even.
👏👏 an actual Asian man playing an Asian detective who would have thought!! Thanks for the upload ❤
And~ who cares? If an actor of any nationality can do the role entertainingly, what difference does his national origin make? I loved both early 'Charlie Chans' because they were fun. The third guy was not suited for the role.
@@DavidRice111 no actor of another race can respectfully play a different race. As for who cares? Those who find black face and "rice face" racist and disrespectful. So again just to be clear, I CARE WHICH IS WHY I MADE THE COMMENT
@@kimberlyharris2109Actors ACT. Portraying someone of a different race is a talent. Agreed that it should done without malice, but those who overreact are usually not of the race in question. If East Asians have a problem with things like this, they can speak for themselves. It's insulting to assume they are voiceless sheep who have no backbone just because of their race. As a Native American, I'm put off by White folks who think they have to speak up for me. I can do fine on my own.
@@kimberlyharris2109They can speak for themselves. I'm sure they don't like people pitying them to feel better about themselves as though they're being a hero. As a Native American, I find it disrespectful when people do that.
@@kimberlyharris2109what about "white face"?
The only time an Asian starred & played the lead during this period. Karloff played the lead in the previous Mr. Wong films. It is a shame Keye Luke never again starred in a leading role. This is another favorite Monogram. of mine.
He had a main role in the Kung Fu tv series.
@@romans828. really ‽ : )
He was the voice Charlie Chan in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
One was Jimmy chan in Charlie chan movies
What’s the matter? You don’t like Warner Oland as Charlie Chan?
Ah, Grasshopper. The horse pulls the cart up the hill, while the bird makes it's nest in the tree. Huh?? Great movie. A real gem. Thank you
What a shame the futures of America and China couldn't have turned out so different from the way the did & more in line with the respect and goodwill in this film. Great, old movie.
What a terrific old movie. I remember Key Luke as Charlie Chan's oldest son. I have lost count how many times I have watched that series
He was also the original Kato in the Green Hornet serials as well as the blind man in the show Kung Fu .
This was the last installment in the "Wong" film series. After Boris Karloff's contract expired, he declined to perform in any further episodes. As a result, despite Keye Luke's fine performance, audiences and theater operators alike lost interest in the series, which therefore came to an end.
The saddest part of all this is that Luke was signed on for four more Mr. Wong films. The only reason he didn't get to do them was because people didn't want to watch a movie without Boris Karloff.
True, it wasn't Luke's performance, they needed a star
@@wilsonstone935 I'd say needed is a rather nice way to put it.
crap like idiot david carradine killed kungfu greed
This film is a lot of fun, mostly because of Keye Luke. It is the best of the "Mr. Wong" series.
This is one of only two films from back then I have seen from back then where Chinese Americans had the leads, and where there was no yellowface. The other was "Daughter of Shanghai", which starred Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn. Both were great movies.
Enjoyable and plesantly surprising, a Asian detective hero played by an actual Asian and an lovely Asian co-star plaing an intelligent female role. Very progressive for the 1940's..
Perfect illustration of why things must be judged in their own time and not anachronistically by current standards.
Keye Luke was the best son ever. I’ve never seen this film - can’t wait to see it. He is a very good actor and a very handsome young man :) 🎭🌷🌱
Keye Luke kills it. He was always good as Jimmy Chan, but he's great in this .
Contradiction, please....Keye Luke portrayed Lee Chan, honorable one. Sen Yung portrayed Jimmy Chan. Both A+ in their roles.
Can't help but admire that first directive of Western Archeological Scholarship upon completing an exhaustive search far and wide: "At last, we've discovered the centuries lost tomb! Let's tear it apart haphazardly with pick axes and rifle its contents!"
Alex Gregis
+Alex Gregis Yes indeed, there are some really dreadful past (hopefully, for the most part) practices treated as completely "normal" in these old yet still beautifully filmed black and white movies, aren't there? I guess the blatantly condescending racism (as in this film's portrayal of multiple Chinese stereotypes - even down to the style of the font in the credits) would have been a more noteworthy observation for me to have made, but it was so blatant and widespread that I believe most thinking and empathetic human beings can nowadays see that flaw right off the bat - one hopes, anyhow. Thanks, by the way, for being so courteous in your comment. That's a rare contribution in these internet comment threads, so your effective effort in very civil discourse is as much appreciated as it is uncommon!
Alex Gregis
Alex Gregis Watch out, my friend, or you'll find yourself preceding those "moving pictures" of Thomas Edison and Eadweard Muybridge. (And isn't "Eadweard" one helluva funny way to simply spell "Edward"? - ah, the British!)
Thomas Goldfinch Muybridge invented that spelling himself.
aahh pilfer chinese scroll drink chinese poison
imagine the karma of the maoist burning shaolin and buddhist temples and libraries...
@@TommyChardonneret🥱😴
He was always my favorite of the Chan sons
Mine was Sen Young, "Hop Sing" of Bonanza. Young had such youthful exuberance it completed the role. Besides, his interaction with Mantan Moreland was simply fun to watch.
Keye Luke's mustache has to go, though.
No he wasn't.
@@MichaelGunner123I agree. But I think he did that to make himself look older to help dispell that Chan persona.
Initially, I thought this might be an offshoot of Charlie Chan, u know, Chan's son on his own! Happy to see him in a Wong mystery, though. ..
Sadly, this and one or two of the Mr. Moto pictures seem to be the closest we ever got to that.
@@101Volts the mr moto Novels are Grear i had a tome w five Mr Moto Before i saw any movie
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 I bought the 1st volume of Mr. Moto movies. I watched them, and I like them. I liked "Mysterious Mr. Moto" the most. I still need the 2nd volume.
I cannot understand how anyone would give a thumb's down on movies like this. If it's not your cup of tea, change the channel!
It surprised me to see that cruelty to animals was so acceptable. I almost turned off.
The movie was really, really good.
A real puzzler.
the footage was from an actual expedition two decadea earlier very undernourished camels !!
Great Movie, but the sound is too low!
They need to pump up the volume on this !!! They don't do themselves any favors by not having the sound/volume loud enough, because you can always turn the sound down, but when its too low, you can just forget it, because its not going to get any better or louder!!!
Keye Luke a very underrated actor.
very mistreated and then idiot david caradine destroyed the holliwood oriental community MF not to mention the kf orchestra composer, set gun masters and the American Western film industry..... M F .
Great movie. Thanks for posting
Thank you, my enjoyment is great!
Love Keye Luke *sigh*......never miss his performances
I was born, the year they made this picture, 1940
Oh - so it is a continuation of the Mr. Wong movies which had Boris Karloff, at first - and that's why the name Captain Street sounded so familiar to me - I remember him from all the "Mr. Wong" movies...
i like the character developing of keye luke's part and the mystery was clever.. are there more?
Nice to see Charlie Chan's #2 son (but 4th child) use a pseudonym and make a name for himself as a detective. Great film-thanks for posting!
you R O C K
13:09 as the butler recites the lunch menu I hear the vocal word twisting of Mr Peter Sellers
Moriarity from the Goon Show?
Keye Luke amazing. Thank you.
Fine movie,good acting nice to see movies that take u away♡♥♡
A little continuity please. Since Lt. Street had met and used Mr. Wong five times before this he would have recognized Mr. Wong even if he wasn't being played by Boris Karloff.
I wish they would have had Boris Karloff in this role Grant Withers still was Street unless Karloff was tired of his role as Mr Wong, too bad I love these Mr Wong shows.
That's only assuming that this is in the same continuity of the dates that the movies came out. But really, not all of these old movies (or later TV shows) had the best continuity.
@@parrot0051Why is it too bad you love these shows?🤔
whatever costumer put that hat on steele's dome should be horsewhipped
Who is "Steele"?🤔
@@scarygary-qq1pj lol, as I made the comment 7 years ago, I honestly have no idea... a character, I presume
Really interesting plot, and fine actors...!!!
Chop suey is Americanized "chow mein," which, itself may be a Portuguese version of yet another Chinese dish. Both names are sort of a joke on those who think they are "Chinese" dishes.
JOHN LLOYD CHOP SUEY IS A DISH FROM THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA. DURING THE GOLD RUSH THERE A CHINESE LAUNDRY MAN IN A MINING CAMP WAS ASKED BY A MINER WHO WAS TOO TIRED TO COOK; WHAT KIND OF DISH OF FOOD DID HE (THE CHINESE MAN ) HAVE. THE CHINESE MAN REPLIED "CHOP SUEY" IN BADLY BROKEN ENGLISH. WHAT HE MEANT WAS FOOD THAT IS CHOPPED UP FOR THE PIGS (SUEY), THE MINER OFFERED TO BUY IT THINKING IT WAS VEGETABLES AND RICE. THE LAUNDRYMAN STARTED TO FEED THE MINERS BECAUSE IT PAID BETTER. THE NAME STUCK. TRUE STORY
henochparks its not a true story that is a myth
Its an actual dish from china en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey
anthropologist E. N. Anderson, a scholar of Chinese food, traces the dish to tsap seui ("miscellaneous leftovers"), common in Taishan (Toisan), a county in Guangdong province, the home of many early Chinese immigrants to the United States.
@@richardlegault5644 I checked the Wikipedia article and Anderson's comment seems to be perfectly correct. Guandong is the correct spelling of what used to be called Canton. The language there is still called Cantonese, as opposed to Mandarin, which is spoken in Beijing. There are many so-called "dialects" of Chinese, but they really should be considered separate languages. Yes, most of the Chinese who came over in the 19th century to build the railroads spoke Cantonese, and that is still what is heard spoken in San Francisco's Chinatown today. Also "tsap" would be an older transliteration into the Roman alphabet; today it would be spelled "qap." The "q" (or "ts") is pronounced like a very soft "ch." Incidentally, "Tsing Tao" beer today would be spelled "Qing Dao." The correct pronunciation would be "Ch'ing Dao." (The apostrophe represents a softening of the "ch" sound.) I don't speak either Mandarin or Cantonese, although I have studied each briefly.
@@henochparksOW! STOP YELLING!🙉🙀
GREAT MOVIE
How about the gas attendant... no self-serve back then and they checked under the hood too !
"how much" / "two dollars even" mustabeen a full tank. when i started driving 1972-73 (vw bug) gas was 37¢ a gallon expensive. btw Great Movie !! so good to see Master Po and Miss Lotus the american treasures so many despise .
ps gotta get some of the original novels in print.. thanks for this jewel.
Awesome
Kinda strange that Bobbie Logan wasn’t in this one, bugging Captain Street as usual.
every one of these "oriental" detective films seems to use the same identical police siren sound
Enjoyable B Movie. Thanks!
Another great classic ive admired the acting performance of keye Luke ive seen him in the charlie chan videos side by side w the great comic himself, mantan just awesome to watch 😮😅😊
Keye Luke never appeared with Mantan.
more sound volume please.Thankyou.
Its funny how Jimmy is such a good detective here but when he was Charlie Chan's son he was the worst detective.
Digging up George Washington in exchange!😂😂😂👍👍👍
I so agree! It was wonderful to hear a joke challenging the western assumption White people rule the world - right up there with the old joke about the Lone Ranger and Tonto surrounded by hostile Indians: "what do you mean "we," White Man?" 🤣
A good mystery movie.
Always refreshing to see an Asian lead played by an actual Asian actor in these old things.
Love these oldies. Keye luke....before he became a monk LOL....he would have had no trouble with that fellow if he already did "Kung Fu". Haha. Anyway...awesome film...thanks for the upload.
keye could hold his own as shoen in the charlie chan films a boxing style
love this great moive.
Lotus Long was a good looking dame.
@ 10:12 Woman says "What's going with my Father Jimmie ? "
Chinese Jimmie replies " Sum TinWong!"
Really good!
So cool and synchronous in a way to see Keye Luke as Wong, finally the lead detective his character always wanted to be as #1 son in the Chan films. Only the 2nd time during the Asian detective frenzy, the 1st being the 1926 Chan serial, that an Asian was cast in the lead as opposed to Karloff, Orland, Lorre, Toler, et al.
And at least they made the white American police Capt to be a bossy, racist buffoon for a change.
@@SophieBird07 yes for a Total Radical porcine change...
Hey, Karloff in Fu Manchu is, well, it's the best thing he ever did. I'm a huge fan of that film.
Pop would be so proud.
LOL-#2 son (4th child) opens own detective agency under pseudonym...
Jimmy is plenty smart 😈
Good movie thank you
according to imbd this was the last of series of 6 movies, Karloff couldn't do this one so Keye Luke stepped in and did an excellent job. Funny that Street first asked him his name and did not have a reaction when he said James Lee Wong..
You could take as occuring before the other films... a prequel.
A full tank for 2.50 ? What a steal.
@@johnbockelie3899 Kind of, but money was worth over 10x more, so the cost was much less. Also, all of the gasoline had lead in it.
This was Keye Luke's only starring role in film.
This should have been Keye's series. He did great.
Mr. Luke one of my fav actors😊
I've seen a few goofy fedoras in these old movies but Det. Street's hat is the worst!
The age of the Dick Tracy hat. Or to quote Elmer Fudd on an old Bugs bunny cartoon, " I can't miss with this Dick Tracy hat!!".
Great film! But I couldn’t stop looking at that horrible hat the Captain was wearing
(( 💿 )) I am wondering if you can get any of Charlie Chan movies on dvd, surely I would like to have them.
These are great, timeless, wonderful and enjoyable to watch.
Great Movie.
Was Dame Mar Fishman in this one?
Keye Luke's character should have been developed more could have been a real money spinning machine . 2 dollars to fill it up sounds great.
Boris Karloff starred as James Lee Wong in several previous movies in this series.
Thankyou 🎉
Charlie Chan Number one son, did they make that movie in San Francisco’s Chinatown?
There is no sound!
There is nothing racist about this movie or character.
I apologize in advance for this but can't help but crack up at the 'ancient Chinese tampon" at 7:03, lol
This is an okay movie, but I can't stop staring at the detective's hat! It's so big and weirdly shaped.
Keye Luke does a better job in my opinion than Korloff as Mr. Wong. I do like Korloff's acting in other films but not as a China man.
@pierusofpella Well with all the lead characters in the Mr Wong films Karloff did a great job, with that not so bright detective Street and a headline grabbing woman reporter the Mr Wong films is a great get away from our hectic world of today.
@pierusofpella It's not "racist", using the word doesn't make one "ignorant", just because you are offended.
It's okay to say "Englishman" and "Frenchman", so why not "Chinaman"? Same with "oriental". That just means "eastern". "Occidental" means "western". I certainly wouldn't be offended if someone called me "occidental".
If only gas were still 15 cents a gallon...
Not so far off, inflation adjusted value of 15 cents from 1940 is $2.81 today.
Back then, however, it was *leaded.*
Boris Karloff played a very stereotyped version of Detective Wong. Keye Luke played this as less "inscrutable" and more intelligent. It is hard to tell what would have happened if the war with Japan had not started. It could have changed the whole mindset toward Asians. This could have been his breakout like Bruce Lee after reprising Keye Luke's role as Kato with the Green Hornet.
Karloff played Wong with a sly sense of hunor, as if he were amused by the characters around him.
Keye Luke is the GREATEST😊
I wonder if I could have a cup of coffee and a piece of apple pie everyday for lunch for a month
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Film (1940). Phantom of Chinatown. (Mr. Wong).
Stars: Virginia Carpenter.
Wednesday, December 20 - 2023.
Keye Luke was a talented artist as well as actor. A great linguist. America wasn’t any better at recognising their racism then as it is now.
I love the Mr. WONG Detective series, but Boris Karloff will ALWAYS be Detective Wong
They knew how to wear hats in 1940. And, did you notice the streetcar tracks?
@40:00 it is well known that Chinese folks speak English when it is important.
Umm... That was done because the original audience was compromised of English-speakers. It would make little sense to have them speaking a Chinese dialect that they couldn't understand.
@@scarygary-qq1pj you’re absolutely correct.
Hey, No "Charlie", (Pop, Pop, Pop!)?
The three stooges, and the tomb of King Rootan Tootan .
"What did she eat, chop suey?"
Delightfull
A lot of similarities with Charlie Chan in Egypt.
Lamentablemente sin subtitulado en Español..
Un pena..!!!😥
estudia ¡! repite ve la película otra vez...
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 No es obligatorio saber idiomas para ver una película.
Lo lógico, sobre todo cuando de puede apreciar en países de habla hispana es que se pueda apreciar con el Subtitulado.
Su respuesta está fuera de lugar.
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 No es obligatorio saber idiomas para ver una película.
Lo lógico, sobre todo cuando de puede apreciar en países de habla hispana es que se pueda apreciar con el Subtitulado.
Su respuesta está fuera de lugar.
Great movie!
This movie was ahead of its time in terms of giving the Asian character parts to Asian actors and having a love interest.
" Ah! Grasshopper"
I like this movie but the name always throws me then when it gets to the part where they use the hospital room to nab the crooks then I remember that I had seen it before,because first time I saw it was at this part when it was seen,still a good movie mystery??!!!!!!
This is too dry....Now i know why Charlie Chan movies had so much humour....
Aha !! So it was old Doc Perkins all along. I might have known.
I never trusted the old coot.
Too many ads. This is over-monetized.
Scroll to almost the end, let the last seconds play out, then hit "replay"
@@meowcat9636 Thanx, Kitty.