Shadow of Chinatown

Shadow of Chinatown

🎞️ Movie 281 min --
โ˜… 4.5 /10 1936

Thrills And Chills And Shivering Shocks As A Crazed Scientist Terrorizes The Underworld!

Released both as a 15-chapter serial and as a condensed feature version (for theaters that didn't use serials) which means that all of the cast and crew would one day be credited in some sources with a misleading extra film appearance added to their filmographies even though they only worked on (and got paid) for one performance or job. The story (serial and/or feature) deals with the plotting of a European importing firm to put Chinese trade competition in a west coast Chinatown - city unnamed, but it's by the bay and it isn't Oakland - out of business. Their representative, Sonya Rokoff/The Dragon Lady, a beautiful Eurasian girl, hires Victor Poten, a mad Eurasian chemist and inventor and an equal-opportunity racist who hates both Chinese and White races, to aid her. Poten, by means of his infernal inventions and underworld henchmen, conducts successful raids on the Chinese merchants and also successfully eludes the people hunting and investigating him. Those include newspaper reporter Joan Whiting, her sweetheart Martin Andrews, Willy Fu, Martin's servant, and police Captain Walters and his detectives. After narrow escapes from death in the form of bombs, poison-traps, infernal machines and some hand-to-hand, five-on-one scuffling in Chinatown's underworld, Martin finally captures Poten just as he is about to indulge in a little wholesale killing by poisoning the wine served at a Chinese merchant's banquet.

Cast

Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Victor Poten
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Martin Andrews
Joan Barclay
Joan Barclay
Joan Whiting
Luana Walters
Luana Walters
Sonya Rokoff - aka The Dragon Lady Chs. 1-14
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Maurice Liu
Willy Fu
Charles King
Charles King
Grogan - Henchman Chs. 1-13
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William Buchanan
Healy - Henchman
Forrest Taylor
Forrest Taylor
Police Capt. Walters Chs. 1-7, 12-15
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John Cowell
White Chinaman Ch. 1
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James B. Leong
Wong Chs. 5-13
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William Hyer
Cinematographer