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| Posters like this one seems to promise a film in which Boris Karloff has a deadly laser eyesight. William Nigh's Doomed to Die is not that film |
QUICK REVIEW:
Doomed to Die is the last Mr. Wong movie with Boris Karloff (The Mummy (1932)) as the to-the-bone charming and unusual crime-basher James Lee Wong. This entry in the low-budget crime movie franchise is well photographed (by Harry Neumann (The Wasp Woman (1959))) and scored (by Edward J. Kay (Johnny Rocco (1958))), which elicits atmosphere, and it also stars some good actors:
An ignorant police chief (Grant Withers (The Sea Hornet (1951))) and an eager reporter (Marjorie Reynolds (Home Town Story (1951))) meet in a classical murder mystery, which Mr. Wong, true to form, solves with cunning; this time about the murder of a ship magnate.
Doomed to Die is scripted by Michael Jacoby (The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)) and Ralph Gilbert Bettison (Phantom of Chinatown (1940)), based on Hugh Wiley's magazine character, and directed by B-movie master William Nigh (Are These Our Parents? (1944)).
Related reviews:
William Nigh: Black Dragons (1942) or, The Sinister Foreigner Attacks!
The Ape (1940) or, The Costume-Crazed Doctor
Watch the first 3 minutes of the film here, in lieu of a trailer
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[Doomed to Die has fallen into public domain and can be seen and downloaded free and legally right here.]
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