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Phantom Of Chinatown (1940) was a Action - Crime Film directed by Phil Rosen and produced by Paul Malvern.

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Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

By John Grant on Mar 18, 2017 From Noirish

US / 62 minutes / bw / Monarch Dir: Phil Rosen Pr: Paul Malvern Scr: Joseph West Story: Ralph Bettinson Based on: characters created by Hugh Wiley in 12 stories published 1934?38 in Collier?s Magazine Cine: Fred Jackman Jr Cast: Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers, Charles Miller, Huntley Gordon, V... Read full article


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James Lee Wong: Greetings. Only the eyebrows of youth would have the temerity to call the beard of age at such an hour.


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This was the only Hollywood film of the period in which an Asian detective was played by, and top billing was given to, an actor (Keye Luke) who was actually Asian.
Possibly the very first instance where Hollywood produced a 'prequel,' because this last entry in the series depicts the first meeting between Mr. Wong and Capt. Street.
The last of the six-film series, and the only one not to star Boris Karloff, replaced by Keye Luke. Monogram owed the distributors one more Wong feature, and had completed Karloff's six-picture contract with the horror film The Ape.
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