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Chester Gan

Chester Gan

Acting
1908-07-04
Grass Valley, California, USA

Known For & Full Filmography62 Titles

#1The Maltese Falcon

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Bit Part (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
MysteryCrimeThriller

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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#2China Girl

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
RomanceDramaWar

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.

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#3Crash Dive

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Lee Wong

6.4 / 10
WarRomanceDrama

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

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#4Ace Drummond

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Kai-Chek

7.0 / 10
ActionAdventure

This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.

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#5Flying Tigers

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Mike

6.2 / 10
ActionDramaWar

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

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#6Across the Pacific

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Capt. Higoto

6.6 / 10
AdventureThrillerDrama

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.

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#7Man-Made Monster

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Chinese Boy, Wong

6.2 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

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#8China Seas

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
AdventureActionDrama

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

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#9Gold Is Where You Find It

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Wong - McCooey's Servant (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaRomanceWestern

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.

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#10Meet the Baron

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Chinese Man (uncredited)

5.3 / 10
Comedy

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

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#11Hideaway Girl

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Chinese Cook

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.

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#12Singapore Woman

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Waiter at Crow's Nest (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.

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#13Too Hot to Handle

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Chinese Sergeant (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedyAdventureRomance

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

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#14Wells Fargo

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Chinese Workman

5.5 / 10
HistoryWestern

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

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#15Squadron of Doom

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Kai Chek

10.0 / 10
Action

John "Dusty" King stars as pilot Ace Drummond in this exciting action yarn from Universal Pictures. This feature was culled from a 1936 serial

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#16The Red Rider

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Wing

7.0 / 10
ComedyWesternAction

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

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#17Secrets of the French Police

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Chinese Guard (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Crime

When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell, the French police attempt to solve the case with forensic method and the aide of a gentleman thief.

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#18Small Town Girl

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Wing (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.

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#19Last of the Pagans

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Chinese Cook (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
AdventureDramaRomance

Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane.

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#20'Til We Meet Again

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Hong Kong Policeman (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
RomanceDrama

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.

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#21King of Chinatown

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Mr. Foo

5.6 / 10
ActionCrimeDrama

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

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#22My Little Chickadee

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Chinese Train Passenger (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyWestern

On her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

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#23Moontide

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Henry Hirota

6.4 / 10
DramaRomanceThriller

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

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#24International Settlement

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Green Dragon Proprietor

6.0 / 10
Adventure

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

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#25Torchy Runs for Mayor

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Ling - Ward's Assistant (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ActionAdventureComedy

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

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#26Sea Spoilers

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Oil

5.0 / 10
RomanceDramaMystery

Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.

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#27Slave Ship

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Crew Member

5.1 / 10
AdventureDrama

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

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#28Lazy River

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Kee's Henchman

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

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#29Moonlight on the Prairie

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Barbara's Cook

6.8 / 10
Western

A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

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#30Vagabond Lady

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Japanese Fisherman (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
DramaComedyRomance

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.

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#31Heart of the Golden West

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Popen's Chinese Cook

4.2 / 10
Western

Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.

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#32Mannequin

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Chinese Waiter (Uncredited)

6.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.

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#33Love Is a Headache

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Louie, Peter's Butler (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.

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#34The Mystery of Mr. Wong

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Sing

5.9 / 10
MysteryThrillerCrime

Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.

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#35China

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Japanese General

6.9 / 10
WarDramaAdventure

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

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#36The Get-Away

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Sam, Black's Butler

6.0 / 10
Crime

A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.

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#37Victory

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Wang

9.0 / 10
Adventure

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

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#38Busses Roar

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Yamanito

6.6 / 10
WarDramaRomance

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

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#39Shadows Over Shanghai

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Lun Sat Li

5.3 / 10
Drama

A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.

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#40Burma Convoy

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Keela

7.0 / 10
AdventureAction

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

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#41Barricade

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Mongol Bandit Leader

6.5 / 10
AdventureDramaRomance

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

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#42West of Shanghai

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Capt. Nui

5.8 / 10
WarAdventureDrama

American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.

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#43East of Java

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Crewman

7.5 / 10
Drama

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

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#44Westbound Stage

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Charlie

4.5 / 10
Western

A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.

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#45Nancy Drew... Reporter

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Mandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

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#46North of Shanghai

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Policeman 'C'

8.0 / 10
WarDrama

In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.

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#47Blackwell's Island

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Wong (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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#48Mad Holiday

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Vendor (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
MysteryComedyRomance

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

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#49The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Lumber Camp Cook

5.7 / 10
Adventure

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.

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#50Sutter's Gold

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Charlie - Chinese Waiter

7.0 / 10
Western

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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#51Air Devils

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Hotel Waiter

4.3 / 10
ActionAdventureRomance

Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.

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#52Klondike Annie

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
ComedyDramaWestern

Singer Rose Carlton, otherwise known as 'The San Francisco Doll', accidentally kills her controlling boyfriend when he tries to prevent her from leaving. To evade the police, Rose sets sail for Nome with captain Bull Bracket. When the ship takes on another passenger, reformer Annie Alden, Carlton's life is changed forever, and she sets out to honor a deeply personal debt.

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#53Escape from Hong Kong

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Tamoto

7.0 / 10
AdventureWar

Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.

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#54The Mexicali Kid

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Mo Cort-Chinese Cook

5.8 / 10
Western

Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.

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#55War Correspondent

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Bandit (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ActionAdventure

In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for an ex-streetwalker, but must compete with a mercenary pilot for her love. By the end, the correspondent loses his objectivity after he helps the pilot save the woman from the enemy. The rescue costs the pilot his life.

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#56Stormy

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Chinaman (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ActionDramaMusic

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.

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#57The Carson City Kid

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Wong Lee

6.2 / 10
ActionWestern

The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.

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#58The Mighty Treve

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Chang

7.5 / 10
ActionAdventureDrama

Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.

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#59The Mysterious Mr. Wong

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Tung's Secret Service Agent

4.3 / 10
MysteryThriller

Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.

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#60Rawhide Rangers

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Sing Lo

6.7 / 10
Western

A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.

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#61Pals of the Silver Sage

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Ling

8.0 / 10
ActionMusicWestern

Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.

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#62Fighting Thru

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Wong

7.0 / 10
Western

Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men. They hire on at the Lund ranch and when her cattle are rustled and she is kidnaped they follow the trail, It's Lenahan and his gang and Reb soon finds himself a prisoner.

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