Shadow of Chinatown

A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.

Cast

Bela Lugosi

as Victor Poten

Bruce Bennett

as Martin Andrews

Joan Barclay

as Joan Whiting

Luana Walters

as Sonya Rokoff

Maurice Liu

as Willy Fu

Charles King

as Grogan

William Buchanan

as Healy

Reviews

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Bela Lugosi is one of my favourites of the first stage of horror presences (not including silent cinema), but compared to his contemporaries (Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Lon Chaney Jr.), he had more than his share of turkeys. The atmospheric, Hungarian-born, quite charismatic actor starred in o...

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