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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 17637 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:46 pm Post subject: Phantom of Chinatown (1940) |
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I love a good mystery, especially the ones from the 1930s and 1940s. _
Here's a good one which stars Keye Luke (the old master from Kung Fu) as a bright young detective in San Francisco, hot on the trail of murderer.
I'm going to watch this movie in the near future — possibly with a few friends in All Sci-Fi's Chatzy Room.
The YouTube provider (Timeless Classic Movies) included this description of the premise.
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In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton (Charles Miller) the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies.
His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong (Keye Luke) and Captain Street (Grant Withers) of the police department have to work on. Win Len (Lotus Long), Benton's secretary, reveals the doctor's dying words refer to a scroll which tells the location of rich oil deposits.
Wong and Street then begin the search for the killer among Benton's associates.
Directed by Phil Rosen, produced by Paul Malvern, written by Hugh Wiley and Gilbert Bettison, starring Keye Luke as James Lee Wong, Grant Withers as Police Captain Street, Lotus Long as Win Lee, Charles F. Miller as Dr. Benton, Huntley Gordon as Dr. Norman Wilkes, Virginia Carpenter as Louise Benton, John Dilson as Charles Fraser and Paul McVey as Detective Grady.
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Enjoy! _
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Eadie Galactic Ambassador

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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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GREAT movie! More fun than a cauldron of Won-Tom soup! _________________ ____________
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the recommendation! I"m looking forward to watching it. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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