The Fatal Hour ~ 1940 -BW

QUICKIE: Mr. Wong returns to investigate a cops murder and Chinese smuggling ring.

PLOT: The 4th film in the line of Mr. Wong features. Police Captain Street (Grant Withers) enlists the help of Mr. Wong (Karloff) to investigate the murder. Mr. Wong discovers a smuggling ring operating on the San Fransico waterfront. After 3 more murders Wong finally breaks the case open.

SUMMARY: Holy Moly! If you blink in the last minute of the movie you'll totally miss who did it! And what? WHO did it? and why? Sometimes these endings are pulled out of nowhere. I had to watch the end twice to understand it. It wasn't what I expected and left me confused. But after thinking it through it seemed buyable enough. Except that a man could be shot twice in the head in the middle of a police station with no one seeing who did it. Especially the sargent sitting at his desk right in front of the murdered man. hmmm. ok. All in all a good story with molls, smugglers, police, the innocent youth and family conflicts. Typical good stuff.