Dick Fleming is arrested and charged with the murder of Cyrus Wentworth, but female reporter Bobbie Logan believes him to be innocent. Logan enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
The master detective Mr Wong the suave Boris Karloff solves another puzzling murder when Captain Street's best friend detective Dan O'Grady is mysteriously killed. Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong who uncovers smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer though not until several more vicious murders occur.
The Mystery of Mr. Wong"" is the second in the series featuring Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective. This time around gem collector Brandon Edwards (Morgan Wallace) has acquired the ""Eye of the Daughter of the Moon "" the largest star sapphire in the world. Unfortunately the gem has been stolen from China. While exhibiting the gem during a party at his home Edwards tells Mr. Wong he is worried and the next thing we know Edwards is shot during a game of charades. The gem disappears taken by Drina (Lotus Long) the maid who intends to return it to its sacred resting place in China. But then Drina is murdered as well...can Mr. Wong find the gem and manage to stay alive himself...
This DVD bring together two films from 1940 starring horror icon Boris Karloff: Monogram Pictures' The Ape and the British Intelligence.Karloff plays one of his many mad scientists in The Ape directed by William Nigh who also helmed several of Karloff's Mr. Wong films. Curt Siodmak who wrote The Wolf Man and others for Universal gives Karloff plenty of fun dialogue. The crisp cinematography is by Harry Neumann who shot over 200 films covering everything from Buck Jones to
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