The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
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George Chesebro
- Varonoff's Henchman
- (uncredited)
Willie Fung
- Ling Chi
- (uncredited)
James B. Leong
- Servant
- (uncredited)
Charles Murphy
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
- Detective Captain
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. Its earliest documented airings took place in Philadelphia Saturday 12 November 1949 on WCAU (Channel 10), in Cincinnati Sunday 15 January 1950 on WCPO (Channel 7), in Los Angeles Tuesday 11 April 1950 on KECA (Channel 7), in Chicago Saturday 24 June 1950 on WGN (Channel 9), and in New York City Thursday 5 October 1950 on WOR (Channel 9).
- ConnectionsReferenced in Love and Curses (1938)
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Low Budget Ancient Chinese Secret
This is just another one of the incompetently acted and written C-grade films put out by gone-and-forgotten Action Pictures (one of many early-sound era independent feature film companies that came and went by the mid-thirties). At least there are a few Chinese actors and extras used to add ethnic authenticity, but you still have the woefully inept Carmel Myers as Madame Ying Su and Barbara Kent as Lotus. Billy Gilbert is the comedy relief as a flustered cop named Dooley. He's also the only decent actor in the bunch; the rest fumbling with their dialogue, including hero Rex Lease. It's all in an effort to tell the cliché story of the murderous desire for an oriental dagger that contains a valuable ring inside it. Rex Lease jumps into the case to help out his brother. Gilbert is cop hot on Lease's trail, thinking he's a killer. Most of Gilbert's "comedy" is sneezing loudly whenever he's in contact with a flower. Like Gilbert's allergy, this dull thriller should be kept out of contact from viewers.
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- vandino1
- Dec 12, 2005
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- Runtime59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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