Mr. Wong Detective (1938) BORIS KARLOFF

[@stenkarasin2091]

To this day I still haven't seen anything I enjoy as much in the crime genre as Mr. Wong, Charlie Chan and Mr. Motto, and of course the inimitable Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.

[@stenkarasin2091]

@@talladale Oh yeah!

[@boskonian]

They are most interesting. Especially since there are so many more Charlie Chan movies than the others... Of course it took three different actors to star in them.

[@AstralPixie]

Aren't they lovely?

[@charlesodell804]

Agreed.

[@veecee3669]

stenka rasin Yes, watching those detectives is a most pleasant way to spend an evening...

[@barbarashelton7925]

Love these old movie. No violence, no sex, no cuss words, no blood guts and gore. Just pure plots and intrigue

[@andibowe6890]

Plus all the old cars!

[@bburton260]

I love these old black and white films and it’s fun to watch the old actors. Thank you for the video.

[@w.a.a.]

The best print I have ever seen of a poverty row picture. This helps these low budget films immensely.

[@diabolous49]

Love these old detective shows thank you so much for all of these!

[@maroulio2067]

Excellent- watching them all. Boris Karloff is great!

[@llochopslater1185]

The Great Boris Karloff . Sure wish he were here to do more.

[@goldabernstein1215]

There's an old "This is Your Life" episode featuring him. He seemed like a good guy. The stories that Karloff and Bela Lugosi did not get along were denied by Karloff's daughter, Sara as well as the Lugosi children.

[@veecee3669]

I so enjoyed this movie, I'll be binge watching the others tomorrow. A most pleasant way to spend an evening...

[@patriciawilliams5540]

Great films. Wish they made more of them.

[@michaelkottler]

Could never get enough of the Asian-detective films, rarely if ever played by Asians except in the case of Key Luke in Phantom of Chinatown. I find the Mr. Wong and Chan films strangely soothing as well as being highly entertaining & offering a revealing peek back into the 1940s including the lingo of the times and much more. Splendid. And yes, these films are filled with sexism and ethnic stereotyping but in their defense, Wong and Chan are both presented as hyper-intelligent, well-educated, well-experienced, deeply wise charming professionals and all-around fine human beings in addition to serving as examples of all ethnicities and nationalities being capable of achieving the same intellectual, educational and critical thinking heights. And Karloff's Wong: wow. Talk about a smooth Brit. Admission: I have watched all these films so often I find Chan and Wong-isms creeping regularly into my daily verbal communication including "Contradiction, please..." and "A request from a friend is virtually a command", etc.

[@censusgary]

The three great B-movie “Asian detectives” (none played by Asian actors) were Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff), Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre), and Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler and others). To my taste, the Mr. Wong movies were the best of them, and Boris Karloff was the best lead actor in any of the three series. Monograph was a “Poverty Row” studio, meaning the budgets for these pics were very low, but there is still a lot of good in them.

[@sarahcousins2903]

Dont forget Warner Oland also Played C. Chan

[@gregorywellssr7857]

@@sarahcousins2903 Yes, the best of them all.

[@davehallett3128]

@hoodiewoman louisiana so for you. Too wrong don t make it right

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

still Mr Moto for.me. likely Because i first read five actual original novels.. as i suggest you do. like the Dashiels: unbeatable - unless you are Kurosawa AND have Mifune on board. oh also those italian are good. eastwood, before the repu possession....

[@michaelkottler]

Agreed.

[@karenhill3970]

Excellent. The ending wow!

[@laurnaleto4622]

My first of six; so glad Pizza Flix is at the helm and no ads. Karloff treated role with dignity; portrayed serenity, inner peace, professional polish. Grant Withers overacted turning what could have been strength into crass bullying.

[@dontaylor7315]

I'm not sure Withers wasn't directed to overplay that role. If Street is supposed to be an irritating character he accomplished that.

[@remmymafia3889]

Wither's role is to bark as much as they'll (director/writers) let him. Some of it is overkill no doubt, but some it perfect for a situation.

[@cherylbowker3717]

I love Boris Karloff in anything!!!!

[@lauracollins4195]

Good one. Thanks for posting!

[@sandracloke6268]

I believe Mr. Wong is smoking something other than tobacco. Truly enjoy every Boris Karloff film and thank you for letting us enjoy them again - and again.

[@remmymafia3889]

I've said it before and I'll say it again here, Boris Karloff might be the greatest actor of them all. He can wear any 'hat'.

[@hopewoods8821]

Thank you so much. Tremendous fun.

[@debwell7248]

Very enjoyable. Thank you Pizza Flix for sharing.

[@jugghead-1975]

Hard to beat ... love these

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX

[@WOLFROY47]

i love reading the comments, there as interesting as the movie. well done people

[@stangets]

I love these shows year after year.

[@charlesodell804]

Thanks for posting.

[@randymaggetti8007]

Boris Karlof , What a character actor. Iconic roles. Like Lon Chaney, he had a way to get into his roles. One of his best was the Mummy. Not many know he was also Frankensteins monster! He played two of Hollywoods most famous monsters.

[@michaelkottler]

Not many know he was Frankenstein's monster? That seems strange because I knew of Karloff originally as The monster in the original Frankenstein films, then later as The Mummy and only years later discovered the Mr. Wong films.

[@adamcheong4742]

13:38. The less than intelligent detective ask 'Why did he kill Dayton ?' So dumb cuz he was in the next room with others all those time. This Mr Wong is one great wayang when talking about the poison gas.

[@vernalc2449]

I never knew Perry White had such a varied career until I started watching a lot of 30s and 40s films! @PizzaFlix STILL SAUCIN'!

[@danielwegrzynek494]

Good old movies . . . I love 'em.

[@vissitorsteve]

I love these movies that are now so politically incorrect, but as someone has commented earlier, no sex, no overt violence, just pure plot, mystery and intrigue!

[@stephaniehand503]

Thank you

[@remmymafia3889]

The guy talking to Mr. Wong at the beginning? Looks like a young Mr. Perry White, the newspaper editor in the Superman television series with George Reeves. (50's-60's)

[@stevenlester2606]

Good eye and ear. It was, indeed, the same.

[@peggythweatt7930]

It's Perry White

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

Yes. It is Perry white.

[@joannespinn2159]

Right you are

[@julesxavier2705]

Channelling Charlie Chan .. so used to Boris being in scary movies (for me as a kid in the 60s).

[@yolandajones9736]

Boris 😊... nothing more to say 👍👍

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

i don' know peter lorre ..

[@MrLyndarenaud]

Why are the Police so often portrayed as such inept individuals??

[@1bsbsbsbs]

Everyone smoked in the good old days. Even the babies.

[@WOLFROY47]

you forgot beagles ? yep i get irony mr bullshit

[@Cracktaculus]

That's who they made Chesterfield Junior™ and Lucky Tike™ for....

[@douglasbarton6597]

Car tires were made of rubber before WW2, in 1942 rubber was rationed and used mainly by the military and civilian emergency vehicles, car owners were allowed to have only the same 5 tires that were on the car for the duration of the war, my dad had so many flats the intertubes had patches every inch, speed limits were reduced to 35 mph to save tires and gas - - AH - the good old days

[@veecee3669]

Douglas Barton Yep...

[@WOLFROY47]

yep, america wasn't a rubbish tip, for used crap. you couldn't throw it away, buy a new one

[@MichaelGunner123]

Good old days? Don't sound so good.

[@allenwatkins4972]

The "good old days" were good and bad, just like today or any time: good and bad.

[@D-Vinko]

@@allenwatkins4972 The "good ol days" were ostensibly worse than today. That's BY DEFINITION what progress is.

[@dave-in-nj9393]

I just watched Charlie Chan in Egypt, same glass with gas in side.

[@startsontime]

And Charlie Chan in New York?

[@davehallett3128]

@@startsontime you re both right but this movie is almost exactly.the same as charlie chan and the docks of new orleans with boris ,karloff instead

[@charleswalker1185]

I have a cat, and I live in the sw desert...I named him snowshoe, after his boots...thinking that it would not be a name for the desert, the C.C.in Egypt...has a sidekick...his name is snowshoes!!!

[@WOLFROY47]

@@davehallett3128 yep their still rehashing the plot but in (colour) and i didn't texded it

[@dianapearson1771]

BIG ole shiny cars!!!!

[@Perktube1]

Number one son: Pop, this is Mr. Wong. Mr. Wong, this is Charlie Chan. Wong: How do you do? We've never met before? Chan: And never heard of before.

[@DavidRice111]

Wong's houseboy, Lee Tong Foo, also played 'Sam Wing' on "Across the Pacific" with Humphrey Bogart in '42. I never forgot his line: "Much trouble- alla time, much trouble."

[@lessmith6848]

Perry White asking Mr. Wong for help. He should looked up in the sky...

[@katherenaboulden8482]

How does the gas get in the glass globes?

[@alphaomega8373]

I love, suffering and death acting, its the best! 1:01:56

[@davidhynes9683]

they had cars in those days Mr. Wong strikes again.

[@martharash3987]

I love this movie but it would be better if the night scenes where not so dark.

[@randywiggins1248]

Carrying one of the glass balls in pocket or car and a cop or ambulance goes by for any reason? Seems dangerous.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

no. i those day self-respectin' cops would Never turn on lights nor siren for a fake lunch....

[@scallopohare9431]

Did the actor who phoned HQ also show up in a Thin Man movie with a very distinctive voice?

[@donnajeanbrettnacher3349]

Mr Wong ❤❤❤❤❤

[@remmymafia3889]

"you have to be crazy to 'dope' one of those things out", said by the legendary Grant Withers, to the psyche doctor, when he gives him his report on the suspect, that indicates he's not a nut.

[@paulallen8614]

Bwaahahaha... Daaaaaaaaamn it... LOL

[@suburbohemian]

Oh poor Mrs R!!

[@stephaniehand503]

great

[@striker1938]

I think you rang the wong number i wish theyd made more episodes

[@garryferrington811]

I've just noticed that with only a couple of small changes, Inspector Street's office would make a swell western barroom. LOL It probably did!

[@firstnamelastname7143]

Politically incowwect, this is ah so Wong.

[@donaldsmith6814]

L.O.L.

[@paulallen8614]

Bwaahahaha daaaaaaaaamn it man... LOL

[@WOLFROY47]

only to be expected if you wing the wong number ? try may ling next time. now, you can't even post a parcel without a phone number ? j p morgan again ? ? ?

[@davehallett3128]

@@WOLFROY47 i didn t get the last two

[@davehallett3128]

@Robert Diotalevi gunner s mate. Phillip ah so sir

[@robertanderson9729]

I enjoyed the movies,couldn't ignore ethnicity of the actors. Especially Charlie Chan.

[@cheryldevine42]

I love watching Boris. There are great detective easy watching movies👍

[@remmymafia3889]

the actor at the beginning who was observing the unloading at the docks, then reported to his boss by coming in through the window? Scott Baio-.......thank you! (lol)

[@parrot0051]

Ha Scott Biao wasn't even thought of back then this was 1938.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

@calihartley2010 ...Al Pacino would have been a baby or a young tot, in 1938! What could he contribute to the plot?

[@darrengilbert7438]

How many Mr. Wong movies were there?

[@carlapari8786]

non si possono sentire in italiano ??

[@danielberton123]

Estou no Brasil, falo português. LEGENDA EM PORTUGUÊS POR FAVOR 🙏

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

aproveite pratique o seu inglês

[@donaldcampbell9219]

Knowing what happened to Grant Withers, hurts a bit.

[@lylejohnson7591]

They tried Asian actors but just did not go over with audiences.

[@MichaelGunner123]

In what films (less Keye Luke version of Mr Wong)?

[@francescharters6697]

Really like video but sections are too dark

[@dominicpiscopo7915]

The inspector Grant Withers wonderful character actor he became John Wayne’s punching bag in a few of their movies

[@douglasbarton6597]

Let's see - 81 years ago - gave us time to read the credits - BTV - BCELL phones - Bcomputers - great 6 volt cars - And a partridge in a pear tree

[@jacksongrimes7478]

James Lee Wong was a great serial writer back in the day & these folks did a wonderful job adapting his stories to the moving picture format. I thought Karloff was good in the role, believable as an Asiatic too, not an easy trick for a Caucasian too pull off. Just look at Mickey Rooney in "Bk'ft At Tiffany's to see a failure in yellow face.

[@benoitpellet1657]

jackson grimes Rooney seriously regretted doing that role and more or less apologized for it later, but you are right, it was absolutely horrendous.

[@WOLFROY47]

god a miracle ? you actually used the word Caucasian, not a colour ? black and white are not races

[@davehallett3128]

How did meisle know the victim would stay in the same room with the sphere until the siren caused it to shatter

[@benoitpellet1657]

Although by our contemporary standards it is silly for Karloff to play in « yellow face », I really like the fact that Street is portrayed as an aggressive, close-minded, wrong-headed, bumbling idiot while Wong is always poised, sharp-minded and classy. Ir’s like his turn as Fu Manchu a few years earlier - Fu was also a caricature Chinese as a baddie, but always suave, urbane and much more sophisticated than the one-dimensional « good guys ».

[@davehallett3128]

What an interesting unusual idea. To make the police look like fools while the private detective is clever and eventually solves the crime unaided. I wonder if any other movies used that premise

[@thomashorton4435]

Grant was sure good at the yelling. :)

[@hollygoheavily260]

What's Wong with this picture

[@davehallett3128]

He s a detective

[@sharonqaranivalu5152]

Ahh Boris... the one and only

[@josephsimmons6297]

Didn't know that Boris who is famous for playing monsters also played in a series of the mr.wong movies.brillant, simply brilliant only Boris could have pulled it off.great character actor.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

@@josephsimmons6297 ...One can't go wong with Boris!!

[@kamillgran9408]

Why they call him Wong? He no Wong he light!

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Amazing the best detectives from the orient weren't from the orient. But so it was for America the free

[@richardsmith4673]

Sometimes the detectives on these shows are so ridiculous.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

His two partners gleefully have him sign a revised contract between them.....which they have just sprung on him, first thing in the morning!! The two partners came up with it together, without consulting their third member! Why are the Police, from the top down, made to appear so totally inept!!

[@davehallett3128]

Aren t the police totally inept in boston blackie charlie chan richard diamond. sherlock holmes philip marlowe mr moto. naked gun. hercule poirot police academy police squad sam spade. The thin man and in real life

[@geraldhard1562]

This seems a little like a C Chan flick. But i like as many of both . Mr .Wong. Mr. Chan . An any others holems ect. Boris k. Is the orintal investigator . Kinda slow .

[@davehallett3128]

Did you mean. And any other holmes etc boris k is the oriental did you have a stroke while you were typing this. I never saw anyone even a yank make 5 spelling mistakes in 10 words. I guess you re kinda slow as you said. What state are y all from

[@Carly8Corday]

@@davehallett3128 I never saw anyone even from an original English-speaking country (OK, probably not original) mistake extra spaces after a full stop for a spelling error. And even ask the person who did if if he was having a stroke by way of missing the point. And even have time to put in a whole bunch of spaces to make his own point cuter. Just as I typed this, somebody in the movie up there (PC monitor, not wittle telephone) said "in case anyone dies." That means the Universe is winking at YOU. When you thought of asking him what state y'all are from, why not ask him his color and religion too? ;o) Those are excused, and FUN. Woops, one of those might get you sneered at.

[@EsmereldaWeatherwax-f1s]

Detective Street was SO RUDE to everyone including his girlfriend!

[@carloszugarramurdi8187]

No hay en castellano

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

Capt Street - - - sounds like Inspector LeStrade. i could be Wong...

[@robertsheetz6067]

Perry White from the 50's version of Superman

[@DebbiesSanctuary49]

The main bad looks like he could be Pee Wee Herman's grandfather!!!! The resemblance is amazing!!!

[@michaelkottler]

Agreed!

[@WOLFROY47]

how about a nice puffer fish sandwich to go with your tea ?

[@alanoffer]

Can’t help it but every time I hear Boris Karloff speak I hear that stupid sixties song .... the monster mash it was a graveyard smash it caught on in a flash .

[@jnighs8380]

Actually for the time it was actually not that bad yes now it would be bad you can't make Mr Wong now . but back then there was way worse movies with white ppl playing like an evil stereotyp acting Chinese or Japanese or "indian" ppl. At least it was more positve a stereotype of an Asian of its time.. I would actually say looking back at history of film the this and the chan movies were actually pretty woke for there time. Having a positive stereotype albeit still a stereotype

[@rogerrendzak8055]

"You're the Chinese 'copper', eh"🤔??? "Yes", says Mr. Wong. "The Chinese copper"…………

[@Misty45-kx3bz]

💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@maximushase7812]

very smart :D

[@Perktube1]

I wonder who came out with the first asian detective…

[@kvogel9245]

Why didn't Perry White go to Superman for help?

[@doctorpicardnononono7469]

because Superman was only six months old at the time.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

@@doctorpicardnononono7469 ......Are you positive? Only ''six months old at the time''? Not speaking too fluently yet, I gather!

[@doctorpicardnononono7469]

@@MrLyndarenaud Superman was first published on 18 April 1938 and mister Wong detective came out on October5 1938, so in that sense he was only six months old at the time.

[@censusgary]

Mr. Wong wants to talk to a glassblower, so he goes to ... the Dean of the Physics Department?

[@helpingothers1777]

His side job....lol

[@cookiemustard8753]

In the lab scene the device the dean uses to find the size of the glass sphere is actually appropriate. It isca sphereometer not just some bit of movie nonsense. But a bit later the dean announces that the diameter was "65 millimeters , about two and a half inches." 65 mm is not even close to 2.5 inches.

[@mirkomiessner]

@@cookiemustard8753 1" = 2.54 cm = 25.4 mm * 2.5 = 63.5 mm

[@HannibalFan52]

@@cookiemustard8753 The Charlie Chan films made a point of weaving scientific innovations into the plots. Things like racetrack photo-finish photography, fingerprints, blood splatters, and even early facsimile machines were addressed. I'm not surprised that this film picked up on that.

[@WOLFROY47]

@@cookiemustard8753 well spotted sir, mam

[@AladdinSaneNYC]

As good as the Mr. Wong mysteries may be I wonder why Karloff went with Monogram Pictures, a bottom of the barrel movie company at the time, to work for them. $$$, an interesting character to play, or both? I'm not putting Karloff or the series down, but Monogram? Really? The company that brought us the Bowery Boys and Bomba, the jungle boy? Hmm...🤔

[@darleneblakely7726]

Don’t forget Miss Marple

[@MichaelGunner123]

Luv Margaret Rutherford as Ms Marple! Made 4 films.

[@sallygriffith5882]

Better than Charlie Chan

[@parrot0051]

The cleaning woman who scrubbing floors was the same actress who played jimmy Stewart's mother which he never had when Clearance the Angle changed everything around.

[@MrLyndarenaud]

;;Jimmy Stewart's mother which he never had''!? He must have had one although perhaps. not this one!!

[@MichaelGunner123]

Clarence

[@pisiata3651]

They made police look so dumb and usless! 😁😅😅😅

[@livannal.t.9068]

police make police look dumb and useless.

[@remmymafia3889]

"you're going to get killed some day, doing that L'Ascoti", who replies, "doing what? freaking you out by climbing down from above your open sliding door"? "and besides, I look like Scott Baio".

[@MrLyndarenaud]

She is just as bad if, not worse than he is!!

[@ericag5346]

Who is bad if not worse than who? Learn to get a point across if you're going to leave a comment otherwise it's just useless...

[@terrykapp6385]

Columbo would be proud

[@virnamisra1657]

A within Reach of Aditya Alok of Sharad N Pandey and wonderfully shut eye 👁️👁️//👁️👁️ boyz to Men time ⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚ Tri Murder One Fair Trial Work n Workshop Mister. Reasons with every Season Man

[@mortneff438]

Peter Lorre delivers telegram.

[@elchoya8770]

a bargain basement charlie chan