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Condannato a morte

Titolo originale: Doomed to Die
  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1h 8min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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Condannato a morte (1940)
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  • Regia
    • William Nigh
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Ralph Gilbert Bettison
    • Michael Jacoby
    • Hugh Wiley
  • Star
    • Boris Karloff
    • Marjorie Reynolds
    • Grant Withers
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,5/10
    1492
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    • Regia
      • William Nigh
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Ralph Gilbert Bettison
      • Michael Jacoby
      • Hugh Wiley
    • Star
      • Boris Karloff
      • Marjorie Reynolds
      • Grant Withers
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    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • James Lee Wong
    Marjorie Reynolds
    Marjorie Reynolds
    • Bobbie Logan
    Grant Withers
    Grant Withers
    • Bill Street
    William Stelling
    William Stelling
    • Dick Fleming
    Catherine Craig
    Catherine Craig
    • Cynthia Wentworth
    Guy Usher
    Guy Usher
    • Paul Fleming
    Henry Brandon
    Henry Brandon
    • Victor Martin
    Melvin Lang
    Melvin Lang
    • Cyrus Wentworth
    Wilbur Mack
    Wilbur Mack
    • Matthews
    Kenneth Harlan
    Kenneth Harlan
    • Ludlow
    Richard Loo
    Richard Loo
    • Tong Leader
    Tristram Coffin
    Tristram Coffin
    • Mr. Baldwin
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Mike Donovan
    • Detective Mike
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Gibson Gowland
    Gibson Gowland
    • Doctor
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Jack Kennedy
    • Police Sgt. Casey
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Maxine Leslie
    • Miss Reed
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Moy Ming
    Moy Ming
    • Aged Tong Member
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Angelo Rossitto
    Angelo Rossitto
    • Newsboy in Montage
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    • Regia
      • William Nigh
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Ralph Gilbert Bettison
      • Michael Jacoby
      • Hugh Wiley
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    5secondtake

    Some light comedy, some Karloff, some dark night stuff...a passable whodunnit!

    Doomed to Die (1940)

    Oh boy, poor Boris Karloff. He's the star, and the one great presence, in this cobbled together movie, the last of Karloff's Mr. Wong movies. Someone edited the heck out of this one, and the complex plot gets hard to follow (and hard to believe!) in the hour it takes from start to finish.

    That's not to say it's a bad movie. It's kind of fun, actually, and because so much is going on, you really have to pay attention, as the scenes keep changing and changing, and more and more characters appear and reappear. The plot itself is forced on things, with red herrings that are absurd and a huge disaster in the opening scenes that ultimately means little to the rest of it, or so it seems to me. There is deliberate comedy which is sometimes funny, and gives the movie an airiness that works pretty well.

    Karloff, amazingly, plays a Chinese detective, and they do something to his eyes to make him more Asian, but otherwise he's very Karloff, which is good. There are some brief scenes in a so-called Chinatown, but nothing so colorful as, say, the end of "Lady from Shanghai." No, this is from a thoroughly B-movie series of six Mr. Wong films, all but one, with Karloff as Wong. There are at least two other series of films with Asian detectives, an interesting sub-genre, for sure. There are eight Mr. Moto films (with Peter Lorre) around the same time (late 1930s), and there are the almost countless Charlie Chan films (first in the earlier 30s with Warner Oland, and then the late 30s into the 40s starring Sidney Toler). All of these stars were not Asian, but that's the way Hollywood compromised its bigotry with its sense of what the mainstream American audiences wanted.

    The thing that makes these Karloff films still watchable is their gritty urban settings, and the whodunnit quality that can hold even a mediocre movie together on a Sunday afternoon. "Doomed to Die" has some very dark night scenes (a third of the movie) and if they did that to save money on set design, that's fine with me because it makes them moody and inky. Nice.

    Check out this rather nice Mr. Wong site:

    cheddarbay.com/0000celebrityfiles/films/wong/wong.html

    Take them for what they are and you might end up watching all of them!
    whpratt1

    KARLOFF SAVES THIS PICTURE!

    The routine plot unfolds in so obvious a manner that one loses interest in the outcome. The production values are on the same level as they were in the other Wong pictures in the...series, and the performances are on a par with the material. Most of the comedy is provoked by the bickering between a detective and a young girl who tires to outwit him.. Boris Karloff saves this picture and makes it into another great classic series.
    7bkoganbing

    Those Kuomintang Bonds

    Doomed To Die is the last film that Boris Karloff made for Monogram's Mr. Wong series. One more film was made with an actual person of Oriental descent playing Wong and that was Keye Luke.

    The criticism of Mr. Wong is somewhat interesting. The criticism in fact of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto was that these two clever detectives were constantly speaking in fortune cookie aphorisms which led to stereotyping of Oriental characters. James Lee Wong was only of partial oriental ancestry and it's made clear that he went to both Oxford and Heidelberg universities. Obviously the Oxford speech pattern is what took and we get the clear diction of Boris Karloff instead.

    Wong's every bit as smart as Moto and Chan and he has to be here. It's your typical locked room mystery. Shipping magnate Guy Usher is concerned over both the shipboard fire of his vessel the Wentworth Castle and the romance between his daughter Catherine Craig and the son of rival shipper Melvin Lang. Usher is shot to death after a meeting with William Stelling, the fiancé of Craig and he's the only one in the room with the deceased.

    Some Chinese government bonds were stolen during the fire and remember this film is made during the Chinese-Japanese War that predated the beginning of World War II. Those Kuomintang bonds are valuable and they're reason enough for arson and murder. A Tong leader, Richard Loo, is also killed before the case is solved.

    Doomed To Die marked the farewell appearance of Marjorie Reynolds as well as Lois Lane snoop and scoop reporter girlfriend of police captain Grant Withers of the San Francisco Homicide Squad. A man never to proud to ask for the help of Mr. Wong. But in this case it turns out that Reynolds is a friend of Craig's and she brings Karloff and his super sleuthing skills to this case.

    Doomed To Die is a bit more complex than the usual run of films from Monogram Pictures which didn't exactly invest to many production values in the Wong series. Not that they had much to invest. I do enjoy seeing Karloff in the role though, pity he didn't do more of them.
    6Bezenby

    Karloff's smarter than your average white guy playing a Chinaman

    Mr Wong returns in another murder mystery! This time, a wealthy shipping magnate is trying to cope with the burning of one of his ships which has caused the deaths of hundreds of people, when he's shot and killed in his office. Mr Wong's got his work cut out for him this time, as Detective Street thinks he's already got the culprit – the son of the businessman's rival who was in the office about ten seconds before the guy got shot. We all know that's too easy, right? You've got all manner of suspects here, from the shady business partner, the lawyer, the rival or even the weird guy who keeps handing around on the fire escape. With plucky female journalist on hand, Wong sets out to get his man.

    While not as good as the other Wong film I've seen (The Fatal Hour), Doomed to Die still holds its own. It takes a while to get going, but once Wong starts doing his investigations, things pick up a bit. He visits the local Tong, gets shot at, discover secret passageways and a corpse, and generally runs rings around everyone else in the film. I wouldn't like to say too much without giving away the plot, mind you. It's just what it is, a solid mystery film that won't take up too much of your time. I quite like the way that Karloff, although playing a Chinese guy, doesn't overdo it and carries Wong with a certain quiet dignity.
    6TheLittleSongbird

    Entertaining if routine swan-song for Boris Karloff's Mr Wong

    The Mr Wong series with Boris Karloff are not exactly great films(none are bad though) but they still make for decent entertainment, and Doomed to Die is no exception to that. In personal opinion it is one of the weaker entries in the series, the weakest being Mr Wong in Chinatown and the best being The Mystery of Mr Wong, but that is not knocking it really. It does get convoluted in places and plods a little towards the end, while the editing could have been smoother and Grant Withers seems to think that shouting equals good acting, in my book it's overkill and it's distracting. However, the sets and lighting do provide some good atmosphere, and as ever the music is eerie and jaunty. The story is routine and has convoluted moments in the second half around when Wong narrowly escapes being shot(the most suspenseful Doomed to Die gets), but on the most part it goes along at a snappy pace and you are kept guessing, the final reveal is unexpected and the perpetrator is fairly calculating, one you don't want to mess with. I also found much pleasure in the script, the banter between Marjorie Reynolds and Withers is deliciously witty and the police interrogations here are just as funny. The acting is fairly good, the support cast are more than competent but never really rise above being solid support. Marjorie Reynolds delights once again as the sassy reporter, her rapport with Withers does manage to gel. But the film belongs to Boris Karloff(the best make-up also of the series is in Doomed to Die), even if he doesn't exactly convince as a Chinese and Mr Wong is not one of his best roles admittedly he is still enigmatic and seems to be enjoying himself. Mr Wong has a fair sprinkle of fun moments that despite his late entrance ensures that his presence is a long way from a waste. All in all, unexceptional but still entertaining. 6/10 Bethany Cox

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      The images of the burning of the fictitious liner Wentworth Castle is taken from actual news footage of the burning of the liner SS Morro Castle. The Morro Castle caught fire on 8 September 1934 during a trip from Havana to New York. The heavy loss of life combined with the beaching of the gutted hulk in New Jersey made it one of the biggest news stories of the day.
    • Blooper
      In the Tong room scene with Wong, it's obvious that all of the scene, except the "Wentworth Castle" dialogue, was re-used from a previous Wong movie. The most notable clue is the Tong leader changing appearance between shots.
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      Bobbie Logan: So you still think you've solved it, huh?

      Bill Street: That's right, I do. Young Fleming did it and if he didn't, I'll eat my hat.

      Bobbie Logan: I'll see that you do.

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      Edited into Who Dunit Theater: Mr. Wong Doomed to Die (2021)

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      • 12 agosto 1940 (Stati Uniti)
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