Doomed To Die (1940) [Crime] [Drama] [Mystery]
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- "Doomed to Die" is a 1940 mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong. Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder. It is a sequel to the 1940 film, "The Fatal Hour".
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Directed by William Nigh, produced by Paul Malvern and Scott R. Dunlap, written by Hugh Wiley, Ralph Gilbert Bettison and Michael Jacoby, starring Boris Karloff as James Lee Wong, Marjorie Reynolds as Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan, Grant Withers as Capt. William 'Bill' Street (Homicide Squad), William Stelling as Dick Fleming, Catherine Craig as Cynthia Wentworth, Guy Usher as Paul Fleming (Dick's father), Henry Brandon as Victor 'Vic' Martin (attorney), Melvin Lang as Cyrus P. Wentworth, Wilbur Mack as Matthews (Wentworth's assistant), Kenneth Harlan as Ludlow (chauffeur) and Richard Loo as Tong leader.
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Source: "Doomed to Die" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 9 April 2013. Web. 20 April 2013. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomed_t....
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I FEEL COMFORTABLE watching these movies.they hold a lot of relief these movies.they hold a lot of mystery in their mysteries.
These cute entertaining movies of the early forties, may they never die. The hip dialogue is always priceless.
Watching this in June 2023.
Such a great film.
Thanks for posting.😊
i had no idea this was the sequel toTHE FATAL HOUR. thankyou
If you had a three piece tweed suit back in the 1940's, you were not only cool, your bank account wasn't doing to bad either!
They were very expensive and you made an excellent observation.
I be got $250 cash from J G Wentworth😜
I loved this movie! I'm thinking of starting a black and white film club and this will be on the list! Thank you for uploading. Liked and subscribed! :)
Sign me up haha! When I was younger, none of my friends would let me pick the movie cause I only liked old b&w flicks.
I'd join that club!♥️
@@charlesrast4235 ME TOO!!!
James Cagney white heat…… highly recommended great movie
Another enjoyable James Lee Wong film!
my kind of Crime / Mystery...solving crime with humor ..
Do you room and board on that fire escape ? Ha,ha. I love the 40's movies sarcastic humour ,and love the outfits the women wore in the 40's.
@@joet840But that hat was annoying with that f'n🪶.
Insurance rep. in 1st scene is Tris Coffin who plays a hotel clerk in the Wong film The Fatal Hour. Coffin has a great part as the "good" Dr. in The Corpse Vanishes w/Bela Lugosi. Coffin, whose name suggests death, co-starred with Lugosi & Karloff who played iconic death-related figures Dracula & Frankenstein's Monster, respectively.
This movie with Boris is great movie. I love Boris Karlof. These are great black and white movies.. I love them. Thank you Timel are as Classic Movies. Great job.
" I dont know nothing about nothing " words to live by
Absolutely.
I have an idea there was an ancient school of philosophy among the Greeks which found that to be a key to happiness!
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Hey, I said that to my husband the other day! 😂😂
Agree 💯
Thank you for this and all your wonderful pos. These movies are from my youth. Great reviewing the long lost
Excellent. Very good viewing! Thank you for posting it.
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Thanks for posting this Fantastic Movie.
Ah, M.r Karloff- thank you for posting this. Mare
Why isn't anyone talking about the handsome William Stelling??? He is so sharp-looking he could be a modern day actor even in this ancient movie. I'm looking up his other movies to watch as well!...
I have been watching these Timeless Classic Movies along with many Charlie Chan Movies, ... It;s quite bewildering why the producer and director did not invest in a few pairs of hand cuffs ... I am glad I found these great movies. ... very entertaining
THESE DETECTIVES HAVE NO USE FOR HANDCUFFS
@@traynorv They didnt need them lol. They call for back up now...
Note @ 2:21... the attorney, Victor Martin, is the actor Henry Brandon. Damn good actor!! He went on to play 'Scar' in the great John Wayne film, 'The Seachers'. In real life, he was an inch taller than Wayne, but the Duke towered over him in the 'The Seachers'.
Thank you
Yeah, even tall actors wear lifts to appear taller. Most actors are shorter than average, with large heads.
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I love and have all the Mr.Wong and Mr. Motos and a couple 100 other old titles on printed discs and 1,000s burnt to disc from the other TCM and the local Libraries. I haven't had TV for 3 years so I've missed TCM but I'm enjoying a lot of movies I don't have, from you and others like you. Thanks so much !!! I did subscribe...
sndtrk3000 yeah what she said
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The chauffeur had a strong screen presence. Kenneth Harlan must have been wonderful wonderful in the silent films.
Excellent mystery.
One seldom sees Boris actually laugh.
I know…where he at?
You'll love this then with he and Vincent Price! 🤣
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That is what I call Scarry... Dear Boris smiling and laughing in film🎥😱
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The "Wentworth Castle" shown in the opening is actually footage of the SS Morro Castle, which burned in 1934, in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.
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Thanks for the history lesson!
Thank you. ;-)
...and 31 years after the Morro Castle disaster, there was the Yarmouth Castle disaster.
@Righteous Indignation. The similarities between the events are notable: both liners were destroyed by fire with terrible loss of life; both captains were non-factors during the disasters (Morro's captain died mysteriously the day before that ship's fatal fire, and the Yarmouth's captain was among the first to leave his burning ship); both ships had large amounts of wood in the decks and structures and many layers of flammable oil-based paint, which fueled the flames; fire drills and other emergency drills were non-existent in each case; emergency alarms and S.O.S. signals were not effectively initiated to alert passengers and seek assistance (although for different reasons); the employment and effective use of emergency equipment and lifeboats were minimal and, of course, both ships' names included "Castle."
The lessons learned after the Morro Castle debacle led to safety improvements in the design, operation and emergency procedures of U.S.-flagged liners, but the foreign-flagged Yarmouth Castle did not benefit from those improvements. Otherwise, the Yarmouth Castle fire/sinking might never have occurred.
The lawyer was clearly not doing his best to help the accused, but other than that, I didn't see any clues showing who did it, or why. Even the ending failed to explain what the motive was.
Yeah! What was the motive for the killing??
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Great whodunit! Thanks for posting this!
Why they called a ship "The Wentworth Castle" was confusing to say the least.
No it wasn't.
LOVED it!
The movie I enjoyed. I rarely watch a movie after 1961.
I'm the opposite. With the exception of Cool Hand Luke, I don't watch black and white. The people act so bad that it's hard to believe anyone ever talked like that.
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CALLING ALL CARS, CALLING ALL CARS
I always laugh when I hear that!
"Fascinating!" "Who me??" "No, the other negative!! Hilarious.
Good movie 🍿👍 Thank you!
"I'm afraid I gave Miss Logan rather a shock." Without hesitation 'Thanks."
@Timeless_Classic_Movie - another wonderful who-dunnit with some laughs thrown in! I have been watching a LOT of these old b&w movies lately (nothing much else to do) and it seems to me that I saw another movie about the "Wentworth Castle" ship disaster, but I can't recall the name? But heck, at my age, remembering to put on my underwear is quite an accomplishment...
Great Movie, dialogue acting etc. But, can someone explain what happened? I need an executive one paragraph plot summary, written for someone who watched the movie but doesn't get the motivations, etc. I'm assuming it could be argued there was a commercial decision to make it complicated, so people would have to pay to see it again! Or, perehaps it is just me? I don't see any other comments along this line. God's Love, Movies 'B'!
That reporter ruined this movie for me.
Trivia -- the lawyer in this film Victor Martin is a young Henry Brandon. Henry is famous for three roles: he was the decrepit old man Barnaby in the Laurel & Hardy classic "The March of the Wooden Soldiers." He was also the opera goon who told the Little Rascals' Alfalfa that he "signed the contract" and had to sing "The Barber of Seville." And he portrayed the evil Native American Scar who butted heads with John Wayne -- when Wayne was looking for his niece in the western classic "The Searchers." Brandon deserved to be a far bigger star.
I knew the first 2, i didn't know the western one
Great whodunit! Thanks
Very interesting info! Thanks.
And he played Fu Manchu in Republic's cliffhanger DRUMS OF FU MANCHU.
Henry Brandon was a background figure in hundreds of films, and very good at it. Read somewhere he was Hungarian.@@markbarnard4949
Dr. Eyebrows at the Receiving Hospital.
Bill and Miss Logan argue like a married couple!
This is the best one yet.
Nice pick
Except for the fact that no motive was given.
¡What a great job¡. Regards.
Lovely 😊 thank you 😊 I
The director made a mistake with Marjorie Reynolds; her character was way way overboard acting. Otherwise, I liked the movie. Thanks for posting.
Thanks.
Karloff as an Asian?! That’s guy bizarre! English accent and all too. But I’ll watch anything with him in it, one of my all time favorite actors and people. He was truly an interesting man and never of kind. Wish we still had him with us.
Infrared film in 1940? Whoa.
The Moral Castle probably was that ship!!!??? The ship pictured by a beach was probably a tip, to being Asbury Park, where it was beached.
I very much enjoy these films, the play between Street and Logan remind me of the Torchy Blane films
my 3rd borris karloff movie
The film uses actual news footage from the burning of the liner SS Morro Castle, which caught fire on September 8, 1934 during a trip from Havana to New York.
ah, so. Henry Brandon also played Foo Manchu in a movie serial. This movie should be remade with George Clooney as Mr. Wong. I love it when Richard Loo says, "I go to your universary, U.C.R.A.)
The detective isn't as dumb as he looks, pulling of that stunt in his office with the microphones.
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Henry 'hubba hubba' Brandon. Bobbie was one tough tomato.
No she wasn't, just tenacious.
In the 1st office scene, isn't that the Dr from The Corpses Vanishes with Bela Lugosi?
Love this Movie!!
Boris Karloff = the Best!
And along with the (not homicidal) Dr. from The Corpse Vanishes in the 1st office scene, isn't that Toby as one of the news hawkers, also from The Corpse Vanishes? I believe so. Any other connection between these two films, aside from each starring a well-known horror actor?
I've watched a few of these Mr Wong movies and as interesting as they be it's very hard to take the Withers character. His portrayal as the detective is very annoying. He's too overbearing, he never thinks before coming to conclusions and he never takes his hat off.
That's how all cops were played then.
Great name. "Doomed to die". Ah Boris, you did it again. And that American jem, moidered.
Very nice little film, a bit slap-stick, but most enjoyable just the same.
To me this movie was just okay just an old plan mystery thank you for the movie 👍🇺🇸
Another good Boris Karloff as a detective
Doom to die was a great movie.and still is
What ever happened to the money from the Titanic which wasn't even the Titanic? There is no statute of limitations on murder.
Lawyers get all over this.
Oh you are going to want to tap into the writings of Miles Mathis; he has a fantastic paper on the Titanic!
One tires of the 'Dopey Sidekick' that gets written into most of these old B movies. Seriously dopey, enough to make me sure the girl reporter wouldn't be able to tie her own shoes, let alone drive a car.
I had most of them on did, ya it was awile ago, I love these movies, got stolen when I was in hospital 3 big garbage bags.
Marjorie Reynolds is adorable. Great to see Boris
Looks like the Morrow Castle beached and on fire in Atlantic City.
good movie>
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I wonder if anyone could be considered _armed but _*_not_*_ dangerous_ ?
I wonder what ship was really on fire?
The SS Morro Castle (1934).
That is very correct in the opening scenes a ship was on fire with a lot of un-breathable smoke! Inhaling smoke on a seagoing vessel, the smoke will kill you first.From the lack of oxygen.
Like Charlie Chan...love it!
The Police Captain and the Reporter would make a wonderful marriage. Don’t you think so too.
Boris was playing Charlie Chan and the casting director never worked in this town again.
Vampira showed a lot of monogram shows on her program.
Wong is always right!
Captain Street is about as bright as... the sun is from Pluto.
is this the same Marjorie Reynolds who later was in the Danny Thomas tv series? I think, the name seems familiar
Edwin: No, I think the actress in the Danny Thomas show was Marjorie Lord.
she was on the Life Of Riley show,she played BABS
@@peanut24cute49 Peg the wife . She later appeared on a couple of Leave To Beaver shows as an slightly older woman. A beautiful woman in her prime !
Marjorie Reynolds also had an uncredited role in “Gone With The Wind”. I think she was one of the guests at the barbecue at Twelve Oaks in the beginning of the movie.
Can’t go Wong with shrimp fried rice and a fortune cookie
No you didn't say that! HAHA lol. That is very funny.
@@PorkChopJonesNo it isn't.
I’ll join but have so much to do l’d watch more than contribute content. However never am l lost for words and commentary.
12:55, was that a Miranda warning in 1940?
I was wondering the same thing!!
9:53 4 dollors for 2 drinks wow
I watched the whole series for Marjorie Reynolds. ❤️
Leaving such great movies they had to be playing them on TV they can make $1000000
NO, she isnt going to stay away from you. and no she aint gonna let go of you. cant you see the poor lady is scared to death!!?? ;) heh
Monogram Pictures answer to Universal Pictures Charlie Chan, and neither one oriental.
Love from guwahati
Great movie to fall asleep to. And you get to wake up before "The Crawling Eye" comes on, and wonder: WTF?
Exactly my plan.
Don't get me wong.
boris doe's not play a chinese guy very well with that heavy british accent
That would be dosen't, not doe's not. Get an education.
@@curtisclary9911 "dosen't"? 🤭
Remember Hong Kong was a British colony for many years, with many British citizens living, and marrying people from Hong Kong. It is possible those who learned to speak English from British citizens did learn the language as spoken by the British.
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I hate this character, Mr. Wong! Peter Lorre to play Mr.Wong would have been better!
It's my money and I need it now!
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Wow look what fame FRANKENSTIEN brought Boris and work
kai ling sounds like keye luke .....
Street was a dawg for leaving his gf fainted on the floor and cutting the feather from her hat. Men ain’t sh1t. But that was funny 😄...
Watched this movie...it seems to me that the ONLY indication that Boris is Chinese is his last name is WONG. He has a British accent. Hong Kong was a colony of Britain. Possibly his father was Chinese and mother British. People look at these old movies through a lens of POLICITAL correctness missing the value of the work of the movie and then waxing philosophical about the woes of Old Hollywood. FYI-----Today non-gay people play gay characters, non meth-heads play meth-heads, Russell Crowe (a New Zealander) played a Roman. It's called ACTING!!!
I don't think it's political correctness, but more like lack of knowledge about history, politics, etc.
Right on !!!