The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)

Slight, kind of racist programmer about an herb shop proprietor in an American China town (played by all purpose period menacing ethnic Bela Lugosi) who is in fact an evil gang lord, who has his men conducting a killing spree in search of twelve mysterious coins that legend holds will give the bearer great power over a certain Chinese Provence. Yes I know, that's quite a plot. The evil Mr. Wong's efforts are complicated not so much by a well meaning Irish stereotype cop, as they are by C-string leading man Wallace Ford's wise cracking investigative reporter, whose love interest (Arline Judge) is just there so that he can have a love interest. I love how Mr. Wong has this palatial residence hidden behind his shop, how'd the police miss this? Anyway, not good. *1/2