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Phantom of Chinatown
Sun Apr 18 2021 at 23:37:44
The success of Charlie Chan on the printed page and in movies led to imitators. Peter Lorre donned yellowface
1 to play John P. Marquand s Mr. Moto, a Japanese-American sleuth whose third film actually crossed over with the Charlie Chan-iverse.
2 Hugh Wiley penned twenty stories about Jimmy Lee Wong, a Chinese-American detective modeled on Chan, but actually handled in a somewhat less stereotypical manner. Monogram Studios made a half-dozen Mr. Wong pictures, teaming a made-up Boris Karloff with gruff Grant Withers as his associate, Detective Street.
When Karloff left the series the studio made two then-remarkable decisions. They set the next film back in Wong s earlier, younger days, and they cast a Chinese-American actor, Keye Luke, in the main role. Withers kept the part of Street.
Sun Apr 18 2021 at 23:37:44
The success of Charlie Chan on the printed page and in movies led to imitators. Peter Lorre donned yellowface
1 to play John P. Marquand s Mr. Moto, a Japanese-American sleuth whose third film actually crossed over with the Charlie Chan-iverse.
2 Hugh Wiley penned twenty stories about Jimmy Lee Wong, a Chinese-American detective modeled on Chan, but actually handled in a somewhat less stereotypical manner. Monogram Studios made a half-dozen Mr. Wong pictures, teaming a made-up Boris Karloff with gruff Grant Withers as his associate, Detective Street.
When Karloff left the series the studio made two then-remarkable decisions. They set the next film back in Wong s earlier, younger days, and they cast a Chinese-American actor, Keye Luke, in the main role. Withers kept the part of Street.