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Doomed to Die(1940)
Status: Released
Date: 1940-08-12
57%
27 Votes
Time: 1h 8m
The master of crime cleans up the dirty game of murder!
Overview:
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Monogram Pictures
Movie: Doomed to Die
Top 10 Billed Cast
Boris Karloff
James Lee Wong
Marjorie Reynolds
Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan
Grant Withers
Capt. William Street
William Stelling
Dick Fleming
Catherine Craig
Cynthia Wentworth
Guy Usher
Paul Fleming
Henry Brandon
Attorney Victor Martin
Melvin Lang
Cyrus B. Wentworth
Wilbur Mack
Matthews
Kenneth Harlan
Ludlow
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Overview
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Release Date
1940-08-12
Average
5.667
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
The master of crime cleans up the dirty game of murder!
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