| Doomed to Die | |
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| Directed by | William Nigh |
| Written by | Hugh Wiley Ralph Gilbert Bettison Michael Jacoby |
| Produced by | Paul Malvern Scott R. Dunlap |
| Starring | Boris Karloff Marjorie Reynolds Grant Withers |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann |
| Edited by | Robert Golden |
| Music by | Edward J. Kay |
| Color process | Black and white |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures Corporation |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Doomed to Die is a 1940 Americanmystery film directed byWilliam Nigh and starringBoris Karloff asMr. Wong withMarjorie Reynolds andGrant Withers. It is a sequel to the 1940 filmThe Fatal Hour,[1] which also features Withers and Reynolds.
When the head of a shipping company is murdered in his office, suspicion is focused on the son of a competitor who is engaged to the dead man's daughter. The girl asks the detective Mr. Wong to investigate, hoping to prove that her fiancé is innocent.
The murder occurred a few days after one of the company's liners had caught fire and sunk, with the loss of more than 400 lives. Wong is given information by the leader of a powerful Chinesetong that leads him to other suspects. Thetong leader tells Wong that one of their members was smuggling a large amount of tong money aboard the ship. The smuggler survived the sinking but disappeared with thetong's money.
Wong uses technology to recover seemingly lost evidence. He uncovers multiple conspiracies within the shipping company and proves that the original suspect is not the murderer.
Filming began in mid-June 1940. The film uses actual news footage from the burning of the linerSS Morro Castle, which caught fire on September 8, 1934 during a trip fromHavana to New York City.[2]
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