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Doomed to Die is a 1940 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong with Marjorie Reynolds and Grant Withers. It is a sequel to the 1940 film, The Fatal Hour,[1] which also featured Withers and Reynolds.

Doomed to Die
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Directed by	William Nigh
Written by	Hugh Wiley Ralph Gilbert Bettison Michael Jacoby
Produced by	Paul Malvern Scott R. Dunlap
Starring	Boris Karloff Marjorie Reynolds Grant Withers
Cinematography	Harry Neumann
Edited by	Robert Golden
Music by	Edward J. Kay
Color process	Black and white
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures Corporation
Release date	August 12, 1940 (1940-08-12)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

When the head of a shipping company is murdered in his office the identity of the killer seems obvious. The killer is the son of the owner of a rival shipping company; the reason is the Romeo and Juliet romance between the killer and the murdered man's daughter. They wanted to get married. The murdered man refused to give them his permission.

The murdered man's daughter asks Mr. Wong to investigate. She hopes that Wong will be able to prove that her fiancé didn't kill her father.

The killing took place a few days after the Wentworth Castle, one of the company's liners, caught fire and sank with the loss of more than 400 lives. Once again, Wong is given important information by the leader of a powerful tong (Chinese secret society) that leads him to other suspects. The tong leader tells Wong that a member of the tong was smuggling a great amount of tong money into the United States aboard the Wentworth Castle. The smuggler is known to have survived the sinking but disappeared with the tong's money.

Wong uses modern (for 1940) technology to recover seemingly "lost" evidence. He uncovers multiple conspiracies within the shipping company and succeeds in proving that the fiancé is not the murderer.

Cast

Production

Filming began in mid June. 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 City.[2]

References

External links

• Doomed to Die at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Doomed to Die at IMDb
• Doomed to Die at the TCM Movie Database
• Doomed to Die is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• Doomed to Die at AllMovie
• Doomed to Die at Google Videos

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