Mystery of Mr. Wong
Mystery of Mr. Wong ★½ 1939
The largest star sapphire in the world, the “Eye of the Daughter of the Moon,” is stolen from a museum in its home country of China. Mr. Wong becomes involved in trying to trace its trail and the perpetrator of the murders that follow in its wake. One in the series of detective films. 67m/B VHS, DVD . Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree, Lotus Long; D: William Nigh.
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BORN: 1890, Torquay, England
DIED: 1976, Wallingford, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Fiction, Drama
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