Mr. Wong Detective (DVD)

Mr Wong was called San Francisco's 'famous Chinese sleuth'. He first appeared in a series of novels written in the mid to late 1930's by Hugh Wiley and appeared in a magazine called Colliers. They were popular enough amongst the magazines readers that it wasn't too long before the character was taken up by Monogram, who were looking for the own oriental detective to put onto the movie screens. They wanted someone to compete with Mr Moto and, especially, Charlie Chan two popular screen detectives at the time. In the usual way of the time period they didn't look for an oriental detective for the part instead picking on Boris Karloff. He soon agreed, seeing the ...