Shadows of the Orient (1935) CRIME-DRAMA

Stars: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald
Director: Burt P. Lynwood
An immigration agent and a judge's daughter bust smugglers flying Chinese into the country.

[@acehandler1530]

What a great movie (and I've watched some real dogs lately!)! Really love the repartee between Viola and the Inspector - he's like the Sherlock Holmes of Immigration. Excellent, thanks🍕🎥

[@cgpyper7536]

Audio-Video shows excellent restoration ... a BIG improvement on this type of movie I used to see played on KPHO TV in Phoenix. It was just right for us kids to "re-enact," complete with a shanty town type of neighborhood west of our late 1940s tract house development. There was also a small airport nearby (Air Haven; along Grand Avenue/U.S. Hwy 60) and we'd see aged bi-wing aircraft flying every day. Thanks again P.F.

[@NancyDrewe]

I love the actor who plays Inspector Sullivan, he’s always good in whatever he’s in. This was more interesting than expected, but a really fun flick. Oriental themed movies from the 30’s are always neat! Thanks, PF. :)

[@SuperIliad]

J. Farrell MacDonald. Outstanding character actor.

[@keithharvey7230]

The barman in My darling clementine,super fellow.

[@keithharvey7230]

The barman in My darling clementine,super fellow.

[@shirleyrandle3138]

You did it again PF! Thank you so much !!

[@gracecotton9819]

Best feature - no music! There were some good lines, all of which were audible, without a loud orchestra overshadowing them, and a fun film to watch.

[@geofftrigger8165]

Too much music in so many films.

[@RRW1982]

One of the greatest of the great movie music composers was Roy Webb. He was as good as any of them, but many of his scores are more atmospheric and evocative. They complement a film like a small but significant fragrance. I've noticed in several that only when the music stops completely do I become aware that it was playing - not that it's weak but that he was able to weave it into the movie in a way that always are supportive.

[@gracecotton9819]

@@RRW1982 Many thanks for introducing me to Roy Webb, who I have now researched, and found many films with his scores that should be well worth watching.

[@RRW1982]

@@gracecotton9819 I'm so glad you did a little searching and found something that seemed worth further investigating. I often post specific links when I get into details, but here I did not. One sad thing about Roy Webb's music is that dud to a fire in the 1950's or 1960's, many of his compositions were lost. And that makes me think of things lost during WWII...yet we are still blessed!

[@gracecotton9819]

@@RRW1982 I can truly imagine the dreadful loss he would have felt, having lost so much. I had a similar experience with my music [tapes, discs, and written] some 10 years' ago, and the pain is still acute. Not only things were lost because of both wars, but all our very finely educated and knowledgeable and skillful people, in all countries, were lost. All part of the plan. I am sure that we are living in the last days. I certainly hope so, as this present evil system has got to come to an end.

[@MsLlewellyn007]

I love 💕 these old movies. Thank you so much and keep going the more the merrier 🇦🇺

[@littlelamb56]

"You had to have your thrill, you stupid nitwit." Oh, I just love that kind of tough talk between lovers-to-be! Worth watching the movie just for this line. Plus I love seeing Esther Ralston again after my first encounter with her (thanks to Pizzaflix) in the 1931 "Lonely Wives" directed by Russell Mack and starring Edward Everett Horton.

[@acehandler1530]

Yes, the repartee in this movie is excellent - the writers were 'on' for a change, ;-)

[@tessloucka5475]

You should watch 'Children of Divorce' and 'Peter Pan' and 'Old Ironsides' if you like Esther Ralston. They're great movies.

[@RRW1982]

Edward Everett Horton! Was he _ever_ a leading man? He had such acting chops, but maybe that's because he found his niche and stayed put. What a face he had - he could have been a spokesperson for prune juice and retired on his profits from that. He definitely added lots of value to any film he was in. I imagine it was a treat to work with him...

[@robertwalker5521]

She was in numerous westerns

[@anthonymitchell8610]

Love These Old Movies

[@sherrihinton8567]

I really enjoyed this movie. Its light hearted. This.ole girl needed that

[@wilde4445]

Thank you,PF!

[@emperorhundredhead7007]

I love watching the old black & white see thee vintage cars and aircraft, without modern technical manipulation.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.

[@sherrihinton8567]

Oh so I do

[@markcoveryourassets]

Loved it. Thanks for posting.

[@acehandler1530]

My kind of G-man, drives a sweet roadster, drinks cocktails and flirts while on duty, runs rings round the logic of the old fart partner...what a guy!

[@bleakhouse5646]

It appears that this entire movie was done in one take.

[@miapdx503]

Bleak House Act 1...Neverending Act 1...

[@NancyDrewe]

LOL Thanks for the laugh! :)

[@mikediamond353]

I really did like the fist- fight in the basement. They shot movies differently back then

[@gregorypalmer5403]

Blackmer was the original "Doc", opposite Shirley Booth, in "Little Sheba". Very powerful stuff. And a UNC man !

[@nomadpi1]

"Little Sheba?" As in the movie "come Back Little Sheba" with Booth and Lancaster?

[@jameskoch7190]

She knows the plane, that was covered up, not fueled and out of use. LOL.

[@dr.skipkazarian5556]

"May we soar on the wings of destiny to a haven of everlasting friendship." Great sentiment from a fool who self-condemns and diminishes that destiny by smoking....cough, cough.

[@daleneparker3229]

Love the 30s movies and J Ferrel McDonald.

[@browill9]

I loved it. Thanx for sharing.

[@PizzaFLIX]

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

[@truegrit8280]

The Chinese actor was very popular in war Movies 1940 & even in the 50s ,, don't know his name but good actor .

[@denisejohnson2960]

His name I think is James B. Leong.

[@helenscott8202]

Thanks!

[@ludditeneaderthal]

"if this guy's Tricky, I'm King Tut...". lol, pop culture, high tech, AND trendy fashions

[@maxinejacobson4006]

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

[@helenscott8202]

With money, you are safe.

[@indrekkpringi]

Gambling was a crime for 100's of years. Now it has been normalized just as other degenerate evil sinful practices and addictions.

[@robertwalker5521]

Talking with a mouthful of food Clipping toenails during a domestic flight Watching the big empty screen at the abandoned drive-in theater

[@patrickmiano7901]

Very good film quality for an 85 year old movie. Ralston was about 33 when she made this. Unfortunately in those days they didn’t have the cosmetics to keep women looking young. The flying scenes were exceptional but the villain surviving the crash was not believable.

[@debbiegonzales1314]

My Dad was 3 years old when this was made

[@carolswarbrick1722]

Ace story, quick fire Maguire....loved it bit o romance too

[@jeanne-marie8196]

Neatly tied in a bow ending…..surprised anyone? A few familiar faces in this one!

[@AKLDGUY]

1:43 that was a wonton murder

[@gplunk]

With six you get egg roll!

[@patrickmiano7901]

Ewggh! Boo! Hiss! Bad! May I use it?

[@danielwegrzynek494]

I like this 🎥 - therefore . . . it is good 👍.

[@graemesmith6721]

Good flick, though I counted 13 shots in that gun battle, which means one of those revolvers fired seven times. Also, there are a lot of blown lines in this. Like at 32:04, Esther says: "If you knew what it meant to have . . . be deprived of the one thing you crave." I guess they didn't have enough time to do second takes.

[@nomadpi1]

J. Farrell Macdonald always delivers a persona well. The production values weren't that good but the jerkiness and often non-continuity may be the result of poor handling of the film in theaters or bad handling of the original. Who knows? Was this a B movie or a one film for a Wednesday night or a late Saturday night? It's a pleasure to view these old films just to see human beings doing things instead of contrived scenarios that the studios faked in the 1950s. This film is only a little older than I, but I love to watch the things I saw as a child.

[@dominicpiscopo7915]

Ahhh the good old days whenever you stopped your car it would stall out n going uphill in the rain your whippers would stop n you would have to let off the gas peddle n the whippers would start again

[@PizzaFLIX]

Yes the good old days. Now we have computer cars made out of plastic that all look the same. And no more Junk yards. I don’t even know where our cars go now after the die. I had a 1993 Jag XJS the last one with Chrome bumpers.

[@stevef9530]

Well I have a 67 Norton but I put electronic ignition and new carbs on so it starts first kick and idles at 900 rock solid! Well, almost... Nice movie thx Pizza.

[@arieswaters]

Good movie most enjoyable

[@trishamcnary7490]

It's like Snoopy and the Red Baron 🛩

[@richardnogan4579]

Good simple flick.Thu.

[@johnscott2852]

Very little has changed from the thirties until now, elite and privileged allowed to get away with anything.

[@acehandler1530]

Yeah, even turn into POTUS with just a kiss....

[@michealfigueroa6325]

@@acehandler1530 The words of a true democrap!

[@acehandler1530]

@@michealfigueroa6325 You can have him - hopefully for another 4 years. The USA should be a distant memory after his reign of idiocrapcy!

[@colinbrigham8253]

You have to suspend your social conscience, but i enjoyed this film🤗 because i and all know its a time long past 🤗

[@Muck006]

@@acehandler1530 Just listen to yourself ... you speak full of EMOTION ... which means you are part of a RELIGION ... like communism. On a fair battlefield your ideology doesnt have a chance, so you need to resort to CHEATING.

[@suzieqwonder3089]

Another Regis Toomey film!

[@denisejohnson2960]

He is in everything, it seems, in the early 1930s movies. Most of the characters are officers of the law. In the 1960s, Toomey plays a detective in Burke's Law.

[@Corgis175]

Flight of fancy.

[@setnaffa]

13 human traffickers downvoted the video...

[@Muck006]

Far too many of them around nowadays ... and sadly many of them are bureaucrats making "legal excuses" to not go after these guys.

[@Jhangchangbong]

고전찬미 감사합니다

[@neilmanhard1341]

Around 53:15, that guy chained smoked cigars. Now that's being tough.

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

Custom-made

[@waderaney7]

👍☺

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

How could she know the aircraft that the bad guy at end of the movie was flying??? Stupid error ?

[@lindapepper1067]

Human smuggling & a dog fight! 1930’s style.

[@rackets7991]

Ms Avery is wearing a coco the clown hat when she visits the police to get her handbag...

[@marcosalvesdossantos1455]

ARTILEE

[@carolecarle7921]

At 31:26 in...very appropriate music in the background..."La Golondrina" (The Swallow) as they discuss wings and flying: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5DRe4ynns5jfqc. Hilariously, this is the melody that Jake Busey plays on that wonky green violin in "Starship Troopers" !!

[@helenscott8202]

Let’s see, the pilot that dumped the Chinese was on the phone in a small cafe. He was shot. No one heard it. Uh huh!

[@fredneecher1746]

Velly special Canton style silent bullet.

[@geraldhard1562]

Silly flick under would don't have a chance. But it's a Agatha c type movie . Ok thanks

[@mrgee1959]

Look at all these blue pill men falling all over her letting her break the law. I can’t stand the judges daughter

[@nedludd7622]

This has an opening where apparently a government plane shoots at a plane that is supposed to be carrying a load of people. How absurd is that? Dumb henchmen vs dumb cop sidekick. This is so silly and improbable that it is rather enjoyable. Nice planes though.

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

That Esther is such a poor Actress all the time she plays to the Camera lens and over acts.Horrible acting if one can call it acting? Not my sort of quality Movie,sorry. The Anna May Wong version of a similar movie with K Ahn was way better and exciting to watch.I think Mr AHN'S initial was K but not posative certain. Ahn and Anna May Wong very much missed and still enjoyably watched today by a very ancient Fan of their's , yes ME !

[@robertwalker5521]

Those who first appeared in silent movies were taught to be extremely expressive