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"Doomed to die" / Monogram Pictures Corporation presents ; directed by William Nigh ; original story by Ralph Bettinson ; screenplay by Michel Jacoby.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Publisher: [Los Angeles, CA] : Monogram Pictures Corporation, [1940]Distributor: [Los Angeles, CA] : [Cinetel Films]Copyright date: ©1940Description: 1 online resource (2 video files (67 min. each)) : sound, black and whiteContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Spanish title: Condenado a morir
  • Boris Karloff in "Doomed to die"
Uniform titles:
  • Doomed to die (Motion picture : 1940)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematographer, Harry Neumann; editor, Robert Golden; musical director, Edward Kay.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, William Stelling, Catherine Craig, Guy Usher, Hnery Brandon, Melvin Lang, Wilbur Mack, Kenneth Harlan, Richard Loo.Summary: A luxury liner carrying 400 passengers and a contraband cargo of Chinese bonds worth over a million dollars is destroyed by fire. Then the president of the shipping firm is mysteriously murdered during a heated argument with his daughter's fiance, who is the son of a rival shipping magnate. The detective (Boris Karloff as a Chinese sleuth) is wounded in the arm by an unknown assailant while tracking down a clue in Chinatown. Can he uncover the real culprit?
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Based on the 'James Lee Wong' series in Collier's Magazine written by Hugh Wiley.

Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, William Stelling, Catherine Craig, Guy Usher, Hnery Brandon, Melvin Lang, Wilbur Mack, Kenneth Harlan, Richard Loo.

Cinematographer, Harry Neumann; editor, Robert Golden; musical director, Edward Kay.

A luxury liner carrying 400 passengers and a contraband cargo of Chinese bonds worth over a million dollars is destroyed by fire. Then the president of the shipping firm is mysteriously murdered during a heated argument with his daughter's fiance, who is the son of a rival shipping magnate. The detective (Boris Karloff as a Chinese sleuth) is wounded in the arm by an unknown assailant while tracking down a clue in Chinatown. Can he uncover the real culprit?

In English or Spanish.

Online resource; title from opening/closing credits (Digitalia Film Library, viewed August 21, 2015)

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