Mr. Wong, Detective

Oct 5, 1938

1h 10m

★ 5.5

Thousands asked to see Collier's Magazine famous detective on the screen... here he is!

Overview

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Mystery

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

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Cast

James Lee Wong

Boris Karloff

Police Capt. Sam Street

Grant Withers

Myra Ross

Maxine Jennings

Olga Petroff / Countess Dubois / Sophie Dome

Evelyn Brent

Devlin

George Lloyd

Anton Mohl

Lucien Prival

Carl Roemer

John St. Polis

Theodore Meisle

William Gould

Christian Wilk

Hooper Atchley

Simon Dayton

John Hamilton

Russell

Wilbur Mack

Tchin

Lee Tung Foo

Gunder Jomann lives in the small place of Elvestad. He prepares to receive his wife, Poona Bai, who he met and married in India. Gunder gets delayed when his sister is injured in a car accident and he sends the local taxidriver to transport her to him at the hospital but the chauffeur do not find her. The following day the body of a foreign woman is found on a meadow, few meters from Gunders house. Inspector Konrad Sejer tries to unravel the mystery and discoveres soon that the dead person is Gunder's wife, Poona. Who killed her, and why?

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