...almost ruins the viewing experience. This is the third Mr. Wong movie I watch and this time the plot almost forces Boris Karloff to play second fiddle to Withers: a good friend of captain Street (Withers) has been killed while investigating a smuggling case, so the action is more centered on him, not in Wong (Karloff). But the way Withers plays him, Street is an obnoxious man who yells his lines, while in the two movies I previously saw he shouted just the same, but was secondary to Mr. Wong and his intelligent deductions. Marjorie Reynolds is funny, but she is constantly pushed and shouted at by this moron. Add to this that the plot is excessively convoluted and you have a not very good Mr. Wong film, in spite of Boris Karloff's usual good performance.
Review of The Fatal Hour
