Projected medium / 1940
Title | [Shadows over Chinatown] |
Item type | Projected medium |
Alternate title | Doomed to die |
Author(s) |
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Imprint | United States Monogram Pictures Corp., 1940 |
Language | English |
URL | Link to original record |
Notes |
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Physical description | 1 reel of ? (447 ft.) (13 min.) : opt sd., b&w ; 16 mm. print. |
Related links | Credits from American Film Institute Catalog. Access restricted to subscribers. |
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Date text:
1940Publisher:
Monogram Pictures CorpSubject headings:
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Millenium MARC Record:
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040 CUY|cCUY
090 |b1604-03-101
245 00 [Shadows over Chinatown]|h[motion picture] /|cMonogram
Pictures Corp. ; Scott R. Dunlap, in charge of production
; writer, Michel Jacoby ; original story, Ralph Bettinson
; director, William Nigh.
246 3 Doomed to die
257 United States
260 United States :|bMonogram Pictures Corp.,|c1940.
300 1 reel of ? (447 ft.) (13 min.) :|bopt sd., b&w ;|c16 mm.
|3print.
500 PFA holds only 1 unidentified reel of this film.
500 "Based on characters created by Hugh Wiley in the "James
Lee Wong" short stories in Collier's."--AFI Catalog
506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF.
508 Photography, Harry Neumann ; editor, Robert Golden ;
[music, Edward Kay] ; sound engineer, Karl Zint ;
technical director, E. R. Hickson ; production manager,
Charles J. Bigelow.
510 4 Variety film reviews,|c8/17/40.
510 4 New York times film reviews,|c7/30/40.
510 3 American film institute catalog: feature films,|b1931-
1940.
511 1 Boris Karloff (James Lee Wong), Grant Withers (Capt. Bill
Street), Marjorie Reynolds (Bobby [Logan]), Melvin Lang
([Cyrus] Wentworth), Guy Usher ([Paul] Fleming), Catherine
Craig (Cynthia Wentworth), William Stelling (Dick Fleming),
[Harry Brandon (Victor Martin)], [Wilbur Mack (Mathews)],
[Kenneth Harlan], [Richard Loo], [Tris Coffin], [William
Willmering], [Mike Donovan], [Jack Kennedy], [Maxine
Leslie].
520 "Despondent because of his increasing business losses and
the tragic loss of his ship, the Wentworth Castle in a
fire at sea, shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth signs his
will, leaving everything to his daughter Cynthia. Soon
after, Cyrus' business rival, Paul Fleming, offers to
consolidate their shipping lines, but Wentworth throws him
out of his office. Fleming is in the outer office speaking
to Mathews, a Wentworth employee, when his son Dick comes
to inform Cyrus that he is planning to marry Cynthia. As
Mathews and Fleming listen to the heated argument coming
from Cyrus' office, a shot rings out and Cyrus is found
dead. The police are summoned and Captain Bill Street
arrests Dick for the murder. When Dick claims that he had
already left for the office when the shot was fired,
Cynthia's friend, reporter Bobby Logan, sends for special
detective James Lee Wong to investigate. Suspecting a
revenge motive for the shipowner's death, Wong goes to
Chinatown to investigate. There he learns that Kai Ling
was smuggling bonds from China aboard the Wentworth Castle,
and is now missing. Wong also suspects Ludlow, the
disgruntled Wentworth chauffeur, and follows him to the
shipping office where he watches him burn some documents.
After several more shootings, including
520 the murder of Kai Ling, Wong discovers that Ludlow, Kai
Ling and attorney Victor Martin were involved in a
smuggling ring, and that Ludlow killed Cyrus in order to
destroy all evidence of his involvement. Under Wong's
scrutiny, the guilty man confesses and Dick is exonerated
of all murders."--AFI Catalog.
590 PFA 1604-03-101. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: January
26, 2001 print scratched and dirty.
600 10 Wiley, Hugh,|d1884-1968,|tJames Lee Wong,|xFilm
adaptations.
655 7 Features.|2mim
655 7 Detective drama.|2mim
655 7 Adaptations.|2mim
700 1 Nigh, William,|d1881-1955.
700 1 Dunlap, Scott R.,|d1892-1970.
700 1 Jacoby, Michel.
700 1 Bettinson, Ralph.
700 1 Wiley, Hugh,|d1884-1968,|tJames Lee Wong.
700 1 Neumann, Harry,|dd. 1971.
700 1 Kay, Eddie,|d1898-1973.
700 1 Golden, Robert S.
700 1 Karloff, Boris,|d1887-1969.
700 1 Withers, Grant,|d1905-1959.
700 1 Reynolds, Marjorie,|d1917-1997.
700 1 Lang, Melvin.
710 2 Monogram Pictures Corporation.
856 42 |zCredits from American Film Institute Catalog. Access
restricted to subscribers.|uhttp://afi.chadwyck.com
935 GLADN51001002
946 PFA 1604-03-101. On can: title listed as Shadows over
Chinatown. AFI Catalog, Variety and New York Times film
reviews sources list title as Doomed to die.
954 20120801|bMarcive Authority Bib
956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load
957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928
994 01|bCUY