Mr. Wong Phantom of Chinatown (1940) KEYE LUKE 

I prefer Karloff as mr. Wong !! No offense to keye Luke!

In the books, Chan likes to fool people by putting on the hokey accent and acting out the stereotype as a diguise.

Faking an accent is sometimes part of an actor's job. It's ACTING. sheesh 😒🙄

I agree. Dignity!

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You are SPOT - ON regarding Golden Girls episode. Great job & excellent memory, too!

I guess that you would call me an old movie tragic! Many thanks.

Thank you, Russell. I always enjoy learning about people's lives. As a child I very much enjoyed the Charlie Chan movies and remember him playing the part of number one son. Did not know he played a part in The Golden Girls. Thanks again. 😃

He was also Master Po in Kung Fu

Anna May Wong ?

Not lost on me, since watching Key Luke in the Mr. Wong, Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan movies, is that among his natural acting talents, he had such obvious physical dexterity/nimbleness. Male model material- stayed in top physical shape as one can easily see throughout the aforementioned three series.

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Jimmy Stewart was a GREAT actor. So were Betty Davis, John Wayne, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Deborah Kerr, Myrna Loy, & Greer Carson, to name a few......Keye Luke, on the other hand, was highly accomplished & very good at his craft.

He was Cato (or Kato) in both Green Hornet serials.

Classic B & W films are my FAV.....by far!

They are pleasant to watch. Not loud,bloody and vulgar. I have many playlists on RU-vid. Charlie Chan, Wong, Moto, Universal Monster films and noir detective films. Love em all

Wong's butler or house boy was on Bonanza for years. He played Hop Sing, their cook. Cheers

@@cargilekm Old news but thx anyway. Role played by Sen Yung....believe was actor's name.

Best advice ever!!

Agreed!

78 year old CLASSIC FILM!

Thanks for that. I knew of all but the '26 Chan you cite; will look for those.

Inconvenient Truth Dept. for some out there, T oler was Asian. Sami. What most people still call Laplander. As Asian as any Chinese guy.

I loved most of the Mr. Motos with Peter Lorre, I'm sure you've seen them?

Love Keye Luke. TY for sharing your talent ❤

@@johnolson4127 Thanks. I think my "talent" is more along the lines of being over-enthusiastic w/too much time on my hand and in all honesty somewhat pedantic. But yes, Key Luke: what an amazing actor. Years prior to my discovery of the Chan and Wong films I had enjoyed Mr. Luke in a variety of other roles beginning, I believe, with his part in the Kung Fu TV series as the unforgettable Master Po, although he's been involved in a myriad of other projects. As a child, Mr. Luke's Master Po made quite a positive impression indeed. In any case, thanks for your positive reply to my comment. Appreciated.

I can remember gas wars at 11cents a gallon.

@@jjennings6161 LOLOL. 4 loaves if bread for a dollar; going to the "picture show" with fifty cents and that would get you in, buy a drink and popcorn, and still have some change...

Yeah, but it had lead in it, and the smell of that car exhaust was completely unfiltered.

Loved him dearly on bonanza and the 1st gremlins

According to Wikipedia he appeared or did voice in over 100 movies and over 100 times in television. He was also an artist known for book covers and book illustrations. Wow! What a talent!

@@kennethhill2119He wasn't in Bonanza, that was Victor Sen Yung Chan's #2 son.

So do I ! They were gorgeous.

Late 1950s and 60s models were better!

But the modern public is groomed to voyeurism, so Hollywood provides for it. It's a matter of popular culture.

The whole movie was about murder and attempted murder.

@randall2020 I never mentioned the sexual nature of this movie. I classify as Male by the way. Prude is feminine meaning brave and excellent or proper. Now who is silly? Me or You?

@@jackhammer9018 Prude is defined as excessively modest or proper in speech, conduct or dress. I have lots of dictionaries. Which one are you using?

And without vulgar language 🙂

Can't say he was much better ...just put a different 'spin' on the role.

It's what they used to do.

@@zakofrx No real archaeologist at that time would treat a find like that. That's set in the 20s or 30s not Eighteen Century.

It was a pretty ludicrous scene altogether. Nearly fell over when I heard the voice-over proclaim 'after centuries of archaeology' (paraphrase, not a direct quote), as there had been no such thing as the science of archaeology for centuries. A few upper class gentlemen of western societies had been amateur archaeologists of a sort in the 18th c. (including Thomas Jefferson), but archaeology as we know it didn't begin till the later 19th c.-- hardly the centuries proclaimed by the introductory narrator. And really, the archaeology practiced in the late 19th c. was largely a matter of grave-robbing & desecration of sacred sites of colonized peoples, a practice that continued through the 20th c. for that matter. As a major founding father in the field, Boaz, pointed out, the western sciences committed to the study of non-western cultures were sciences based on the west's colonization of mainly indigenous peoples. The opening scene of the archaeologists was crude but in many ways an appropriate jab. After 'many centuries of archaeology', this bunch of yahoos has made a great discovery by ripping apart tombs. Someone involved in the making of this film didn't think too highly of the field of archaeology.

​@@janegarner6739So what exactly are you trying to say? 🤔

That's what most European explorers did and still do.

There were several actors who played Wong, they all did the role justice. Just like the Chan series they were done with respect for the culture, they weren't done to mock. Keye Luke had other things going on at the time and also went on to help put together the Screen Actors Guild. There were also issue regarding contracts that needed to be honored by the studio. I think it's important that people understand that these series acted as an introduction to Chinese culture for Americans as well as many other countries.

Yes, too many people are just too anxious get on their high horse to spout nonsense. 🐴🐎

He also played Kato in the 1940 and 1941 serials of the Green Hornet. He was Master Po on Kung Fu among many other roles.

Nah ...U made that up....LOL

@@jrousselle7828 Kung Fu was a HORRIBLE show/series.....just saying.

Yes, and I love all the Charlie Chan's! Great movies!

"My camera! I ought to be photographing this!" 🙂

It was also pretty well lit for a tomb. :)

They could have rushed in twice, that's not lying. :p

At first I thought the cameraman was George Zucco. Nope.

Exactly

Key luke was better

Wrong about bonanza but in both gremlins

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So the Chinese guy did a worse job at being Chinese than Karloff. Ya, ok.

​@@number62It isn't about "being Chinese", it's about ACTING. sheesh 😒🙄

karloff was of a mixed breed, but having not an ounce of chinese dna!

At Steets...The man just wants a easy job.

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that was good idea

How old was Keye Luke when U met him? Very kewl that U did.

" Karloff" ( real name was something Scottish but I see his daughter uses " Karloff" in interviews so maybe he got a name change) was not only a versatile actor ( just typecast in routine shock flicks) and a very cultured gentleman, he by all accounts I know was one of the nicest people in the whole movie biz. He played Wong like Black , Asian and etc. opera singers sing plenty of White characters ( Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier, Wagner's Flying Dutchman's " Senta" etc etc etc) nowadays; nobody cared. Music and acting, not polemics. " Boris" wouldn't have deliberated offended anyone anyhow. A really interesting man.

@@gregorypalmer5403 Boris Karloff's real name is "William Henry Pratt."

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Oh your right he played the master

He was also in 3 episodes of M.A.S.H. One was the trader with the push cart who made the instrument which Hawkeye needed as a clamp.The other 2 I'm not clear on so I won't try to name them.

TravelDiva66 that's what I was thinking.

Yes. He was one of the few Big Name Chinese actors in Hollywood in those days.

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Yes; Keye Luke. Benson Fong was in some Charlie Chan movies in the mid 40s, but he was as Charlie's #3 son, Tommy.

+Tom Niessen Yes it is, Thanks. Jacinta xX.

I wonder what type camera and film they used without any lighting of any kind and had nice bright movie inside an ancient tomb.

Yeah...but I miss them guts!

Did you have to say that? I'm just having dinner! But you're quite right. :)

This was over 10 years before all of those Hammer films of the 50s - 60s, let alone the Grindhouse movies of the 70s and whatnot. But yeah, it's a whole other world back here that I appreciate.

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Because the film is vintage.

This is the most subdued I've ever seen him, though he wasn't _always_ a complete hard-head even in the Karloff movies. In one of them, though (Mr. Wong in Chinatown, which was the first Mr. Wong movie I saw,) he was so rough that I wondered how he ever got the job.

He's gentler here, actually. In one of the Wong movies, he was being so rough that I was wondering how he landed the job. Though, that particular one was the first Mr. Wong movie I ever saw, too.

That wasn't a chargeable offense back in those days.

Religion need only be followed by the faithful. All bets are off regarding outsiders!

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@@richardwoolley7854 WRONG. Religion or not, foreigners have no right to loot tombs for "research". Typically European practice.

legion1a the cars were cherry!

Most of those women are now dead.

You mean black & white?

@@acehandler1530 No, you dim wit, in the color they were when they were in front of the ancient B&W camera!

@@legion1a You miss the humor in life you miss the living itself 😁

Kung Fu....what a HORRIBLE show.

Another line, "When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave."

Chinese and Asian are not synonyms! There are hundreds of ethnicities in Asia.

@@gregb6469 I'm talking about the police entering a home without a warrant, not the stupid tomb. Nobody has any rights in Outer Mongolia!

Explorers are looters, and mostly Europeans.

+Dave Thompson I bought all the Charlie Chan vids in case the PC psychos and the thought police get them banned. They should get a time machine and travel back to the 1940s and try to get things changed then. After someone gave them a knuckle sandwich for not minding their own business, they might see the error of their ways and learn how to mind their own business.

stanthology I also bought all the Amos and Andy videos!!!

Dave Thompson Agree with you! Absolutely...

I got an old klan record.

The whole point of these movies, along with the Mr. Moto movies and the Charlie Chan movies (not to mention Sherlock Holmes) was to poke fun at (supposedly) stupid conventional police forces. Part of this was to make the characters to have some glaringly annoying character flaw, such as Street's bombastic personality. In the Holmes story, remember that most of the inspectors in those stories were full of themselves, and jumped to conclusions without having all the information. "It is a capital mistake to theorize without data," as Holmes said.

@@rev.dr.anthonyburton403 And like Holmes: "Hasty conclusion, like ancient egg; look good from outside." - Charlie Chan

Yes, Holmes had Inspector Lestrade, Poirot had Chief Inspector Japp, Monk had Captain Stottlemeyer, etc.

who gives a (blank) about PC?

Cop Suey was never a Chinese dish,it was developed for the American market.

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There were six Mr. Wong movies made between 1938 and 1940. The first five started Boris Karloff and were directed by William Nigh. Only the final movie starred Keye Luke as a young James Lee Wong. This movie was directed by Phil Rosen. Keye Luke had already appeared in seven Charlie Chan movies as Chan's "number one son" Lee Chan when this movie was made. He continued to work extensively in film and television until his death at age 86 in 1991. There's a Wikipedia article "Mr. Wong (fictional detective)". According to this article, "Phantom of Chinatown" was the first time an Asian actor played a lead Asian detective in an American sound film.

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