Mr. Wong, Detective

Mr. Wong, Detective
Film poster
Directed by	William Nigh
Written by	Hugh Wiley Houston Branch
Produced by	William T. Lackey
Starring	Boris Karloff Grant Withers
Cinematography	Harry Neumann
Edited by	Russell F. Schoengarth
Production company	Monogram Pictures
Release date	October 5, 1938 (1938-10-05)
Running time	69 minutes
Land	Vereinigte Staaten
Sprache	Englisch

Mr. Wong, Detective is a 1938 American crime film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff in his first appearance as Mr. Wong.

Plot

Lobby card for the film

Simon Dayton is in fear for his life and seeks the help of Mr. Wong to protect him. Just prior to meeting Mr. Wong, Dayton is found dead in his office without a mark on him with several witnesses testifying Dayton was alone in his office that was locked from the inside. Though the police view Dayton's death as due to a heart attack, Mr. Wong discovers a broken glass ball that contained poison gas.

Among the suspects are agents of a foreign power wishing to stop Dayton's chemicals being sent to use on the foreign power in the form of the same poison gas that killed Dayton, Dayton's business partners who will have Dayton's share of the business come to them after Dayton's death and the actual inventor of the chemical who has been cheated out of profits and recognition by Dayton.

Cast

• Boris Karloff as Mr. James Lee Wong
• Grant Withers as Captain Sam Street
• Maxine Jennings as Myra Ross, Dayton's Secretary
• Evelyn Brent as Olga Petroff / Countess Dubois / Sophie Dome
• George Lloyd as Detective Lt. Devlin
• Lucien Prival as Anton Mohl, aka Baron Von Krantz
• John St. Polis as Carl Roemer, Poison Gas Inventor
• William Gould as Theodore Meisel, Dayton's Partner
• Hooper Atchley as Christian Wilk, Dayton's Partner
• John Hamilton (actor) as Simon Dayton, President Dayton Chemical Co.
• Wilbur Mack as Russell, Dayton's Office Manager
• Lee Tung Foo as Tchin, Wong's Servant (as Lee Tong Foo)
• Lynton Brent as Detective Tommy
• Grace Wood as Mrs. Carl Roemer

External links

• Mr. Wong, Detective at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Mr. Wong, Detective at IMDb
• Mr. Wong, Detective is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive