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In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words &quot;Eternal Fire&quot; are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on. Win Lee, Benton&#39;s secretary, reveals the doctor&#39;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&#39;s associates.
Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.
Theoretically, &quot;Phantom of Chinatown&quot; is the last one of the &quot;Mr. Wong&quot; detective series that had been starring Boris Karloff, where Monogram had tried in a rather mediocre way to &#39;copy&#39; 20th Century-Fox&#39; hugely successful &#39;Charlie Chan&#39; series. But, even in story, directing and acting this movie is way above the &#39;British Chinese detective&#39; films - and what&#39;s much more, it stars not only a REAL Chinese as the detective, but someone known VERY well to fans of the genre in general and to fans of the &#39;Charlie Chan&#39; movies in particular: Keye Luke, who had played Charlie&#39;s &#39;number one son&#39; Lee in the Warner Oland Charlie Chans...<br/><br/>And now he becomes a detective &#39;in his own right&#39; at last - and a very clever one, too! He does some nice teamwork with the typically American &#39;flatfoot&#39; Captain Street (Grant Withers), but there&#39;s no doubt that the Chinese is smarter - which was a pretty unusual thing at the time: an Asian as protagonist, and being more intelligent than the average US policeman; and on top of it all, &#39;Jimmy Wong&#39; even makes QUITE a daring remark about all the archaeological excavations being done in China by Americans, suggesting that maybe Chinese archaeologists might dig up George Washington&#39;s grave for a change!! <br/><br/>Generally, this is a very neat and unusual little &#39;flag waver&#39;: Chinese and Americans work hand in hand for a HUGELY important purpose - the &#39;Eternal Fire&#39; that the leader of the archaeological expedition had discovered in Mongolia is of such vital importance that it must not under ANY circumstances fall into the hands of both countries&#39; enemy...<br/><br/>But it&#39;s also a VERY entertaining, suspenseful mystery thriller, where nothing&#39;s missing, neither a creepy atmosphere nor some REAL good jokes nor a beautiful romantic element; it can surely compete with almost any of the best crime movies of its time (and especially taking into account that it was made on a budget incomparably smaller than that of the big studios&#39; productions) - and it owes the biggest part of its liveliness and freshness that remains until this day to its wonderful cast; with first and best Keye Luke.
Phantom of Chinatown (1940) <br/><br/>* 1/2 (out of 4)<br/><br/>An archaeologist returns from an expedition in China and is giving a lecture on a scroll that he discovered. Just as he starts to talk about the curse surrounding it he falls to the ground. At first people think he&#39;s just tired but it turns out that he was poisoned and now he&#39;s dead. Mr. Wong (Keye Luke) is put on the case and tries to determine what happened with the aide of Captain Street (Grant Withers).<br/><br/>PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN would be the sixth and final film in Monogram&#39;s Mr. Wong series. The first two films with Boris Karloff were better-than-average &quot;B&quot; movies but his three follow-ups were fair at best. This sixth film had Karloff being replaced by Luke who was well-known for his appearances in the Charlie Chan movies but sadly this is the worst in the series.<br/><br/>Yes, it&#39;s nice seeing an Asian actor in the lead role and many of the supporting parts are played by Asians as well. The problem is that Luke just wasn&#39;t very good here. In fact, he just wasn&#39;t the greatest actor out there and I had a major problem believing that he was the character. A smart and brilliant detective is not what I saw from Luke and this damaged the film. The screenplay didn&#39;t do the character much justice and the same is true for Withers who turns in his worst performance in the series.<br/><br/>The biggest problem with the movie is the fact that the story and mystery are just way too bland for their own good. The film really gets off to a good start but after the man dies everything just falls apart. There&#39;s no drama, no tension and just nothing here that holds your attention. Even the 61-minute running time drags by.

This is the last of the Mr. Wong series. <a href="/name/nm0525601/">Keye Luke</a> takes over the role of Mr. Wong from <a href="/name/nm0000472/">Boris Karloff</a>, who had played the part in all the earlier films. This makes Wong the only Asian detective in a Hollywood film of the period to be played by an Asian actor. The Mr. Wong films all seem to be in the public domain, which means any distributor can legally sell copies without paying royalties. Beware. Some small distributors market copies of public domain films with poor picture and sound. Others are more reputable and deliver good transfers of the best available prints. Shop around.  a5c7b9f00b