Byrdz This about sums up what there is of a plot. "Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder. " BUT there is more. It's got lots of atmosphere... foggy nights and dimly lit buildings. It's got Karloff as University educated Mr. Wong. It's got a collection of stereo-typically Hollywood variety Chinese. It's got a funny girl reporter and a rather clueless cop who banter back and forth in really snappy dialogue. She wears an astonishing variety of hats including one with a particularly annoying feather. It's got plot holes galore and things get rather confusing here and there but in the end it doesn't matter one iota .. it was a fun movie and it has the voice of the Grinch .. who can ask for anything more ?

arfdawg-1 This movie would never be made today because some clown would call it racist. It's amazing how the crazy left in its pretending to be open minded actually squelches freedom.That is not to say this is a great movie or that your life would be negatively impacted by not seeing it.It's a B picture with Boris Karloff playing what in 1940 would be called a "China-man." Oddly, Karloff doesn't change his speech pattern for the role -- at least not that I can tell -- so he plays an Asian with a Brit accent!The Plot Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiancé Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.

utgard14 Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) investigates the murder of a shipping tycoon and a plot about contraband bonds. Returning are supporting players Grant Withers as Police Captain Bill Street and Marjorie Reynolds as reporter Bobbie Logan. The character of Bobbie Logan and her dynamic with Bill Street are pretty much ripped-off from the Torchy Blane movie series, which was generally superior to Mr. Wong. This is the last of the Mr. Wong movies Boris Karloff would be in. It suffers from typically cheap Monogram production values and a predictable story. But it does have the always-brilliant Boris Karloff, which is nothing to shrug at. Karloff's Wong films were watchable but forgettable. If you haven't seen a lot of other (better) B detective series, you might enjoy the Wong films more. But I've seen pretty much all of the them, certainly all of the major ones, and Mr. Wong sadly does not stand up well. That's not the fault of Boris Karloff, however, so if you're a fan of his I would certainly recommend you check this series out.

wes-connors "When 'The Wentworth Castle' (a ship) catches ablaze, killing numerous people, shipping tycoon Cyrus Wentworth is distraught over the loss, and is found shot dead in his office. Dick Fleming is the prime suspect in the mind of the none-to-bright (sic) police captain Bill Street. Dick is a business rival, and happens to be in love with Wentworth's daughter Cynthia. When cub reporter Bobbie Logan puts Mr. Wong on the case, the result is a foregone conclusion," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Boris Karloff politely bows out of the lackluster "Mr. Wong" series, after this entry.This time, as always, Wong uses his wiser "oriental mind" to unravel a mystery that nobody else can see (don't bother trying to solve it at home; there really isn't a solvable mystery to be found). Cute and bubbly Marjorie Reynolds (as Bobbie Logan) does appear. So does Grant Withers (as Bill Street), who, as Ms. Logan notes, "always arrests the wrong man." The film makes good use of stock footage. The uncredited cast is good; for example, catch Angelo Rossitto as a newsboy in the opening, and Gibson Gowland as the doctor who treats Karloff's "flesh wound".** Doomed to Die (1940) William Nigh ~ Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers