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Based on The Twelve Coins of Confucius by Harry Stephen Keeler, the story features Bela Lugosi as the evil Mr. Wong who uses a laundry as cover while searching for the twelve coins, which legend says bestow great power upon the owner.
Production Company: Monogram Pictures
Director: William Nigh
Supervisor: George Yohalem
Original Story: The Twelve Coins of Confucius by Harry Stephen Keeler
Adaptaion: Nina Howatt
Continuity: Lew Levison
Additional Dialogue: James Herbuveaux
Cinematography: Harry Neumann
Cast:
Bela Lugosi: Mr. Fu Wong aka Li See
Wallace Ford: Jason H. ‘Jay’ Barton
Arline Judge: Peg
Fred Warren: Tsi Tung
Lotus Long: Moonflower
Robert Emmett O’Connor: Officer ‘Mac’ McGillicuddy
Edward Piel, Sr.: Jen Yu Wong
Luke Chan: Professor Chan Fu
Lee Shumway: Steve Brandon
Etta Lee: Lusan
Ernest F. Young: Chuck Roberts
Theodore Lorch: Wong’s henchman
James B. Leong: Wong’s henchman
Chester Gan: Tung’s secret service agent
Richard Loo: Bystander outside store
Forrest Taylor: Wong’s henchman
Beal Wong: Killing bystander
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The Milwaukee Journal, October 14, 1934
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The New York Times, March 7, 1935
At the Criterion
F.S.N.
The bars of chocolate were consumed and the last morsel of the ham sandwich disappeared just as Mr. Wong faded from the screen. In time, Mr. Jones and his horse would have come along, but not in time enough. The Code of Fair Practice for Film Reviewers contains no provision for double bills. “The Crimson Trail” will have to wait. “Mr. Wong” is the bloody biography of a power-mad Chinese. It seems that Confucius distributed twelve golden coins before his death and a legend developed that great power would come to the man who succeeded in obtaining all twelve for himself. Mr. Wong turns his hatchet men loose in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Soon there are eleven dead Chinese in the streets and eleven golden coins on Mr. Wong’s table. A brash young newspaper man (one of the screen’s usual brash young newspaper men) becomes involved in Mr. Wong’s mad hunt for the twelfth coin. Single-handed, if one excepts his telephone girl inamorata, he dares pursue Mr. Wong through the murky secret passages behind old Li See’s herb shop. He is captured, and when it seems that nothing can save him, something does. It is very, very juvenile and not particularly exciting, unless, of course, one happens to have a low boiling point. Still, it is only half of the bill and there’s always the chance that “The Crimson Trail” . . . At least, it’s something to speculate about. THE MYSTERIOUS MR. WONG, adapted by Nina Howatt from “The Twelve Coins of Confucius,” by Harry Stephen Keeler; directed by William Nigh; a Monogram production; at the Criterion. Mr. Wong . . . . . Bela Lugosi Jason Barton . . . . . Wallace Ford Peg . . . . . Arline Judge Tsung . . . . . Fred Warren Moonflower . . . . . Lotus Long McGillicuddy . . . . . Robert Emmet O’Connor Jen Yu . . . . . Edward Peil Chan Fu . . . . . Luke Chan Brandon . . . . . Lee Shumway
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The Spokesman Review, March 28, 1935
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The Spokane Daily Chronicle, March 29, 1935
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The Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1935
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Spokane Daily Chronicle, July 31, 1936
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The Spokesman Review, August 1. 1935
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The Spokesman Review, December 1, 1936
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