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5.8

Doomed to Die

NR·1940·68m

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Summary

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.

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

Richard Loo

Tong Leader

Tris Coffin

Mr. Baldwin - Adjuster (uncredited)

Gibson Gowland

Doctor (uncredited)

Jack Kennedy

Police Sgt. Casey (uncredited)

Bill Willmering

Det. Blake (uncredited)

Mike Donovan

Det. Mike

Maxine Leslie

Miss Reed - Secretary

Moy Ming

Aged Tong Member

Angelo Rossitto

Newsboy #3 in Montage

Crew

Director

William Nigh

Characters

Hugh Wiley

Screenplay

Michael Jacoby

Story

Ralph Gilbert Bettison

Reviews

talisencrw

September 22, 2016

I love Boris Karloff so much in this 5-pack of early films he made that it doesn't bother me that he plays an Oriental detective. He threw himself, vitally, into every role he portrayed, and that's why he's so beloved today.