LONG, ROBERT EMMETT O'CONNOR, EDWARD PIEL, LUKE CHAN, LEE
SHUMWAY, ETTA LEE, ERNEST F YOUNG, THEODORE LORCH, JAMES B
LEONG, CHESTER GAN.
BELA LUGOSI PLAYS 2 ROLES (DUAL PERFORMANCE) AN ORIENTAL
ARCH-VILLAIN, MR. WONG & SMALL CHINATOWN HERB SHOP OWNER (WHO SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH). OLD-FASHIONED MELODRAMA WITH CLUTCHING HANDS, SECRET PASSAGES, TORTURE CHAMBERS, MURDERS AND THE QUEST FOR WORLD DOMINATION. POVERTY ROW MYSTERY. LUGOSI CHEWS THE SCENERY.
THE "CREEPING SHADOW" IS A MAD MANCHURIAN MANDARIN AT LARGE IN NEW YORK CITY'S CHINATOWN. THE STORY CENTERS ON THE EVIL WONG'S SEARCH FOR THE 12 ANCIENT COINS OF CONFUCIUS WHICH (LEGEND HAS IT) WILL GIVE THEIR POSSESSOR EXTRAORDINARY POWERS IN THE CHINESE PROVINCE OF KEELAT. THROUGH THE CENTURIES THE 12 DUCATS HAVE PASSED DOWN TO 12 CHINAMEN, MOST OF WHOM HAVE RELOCATED TO NEW YORK'S CHINATOWN. WONG DISPATCHES HIS HATCHET MEN TO KILL THE MEN & STEAL THE COINS, BUT THE 12TH FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF A SMART-MOUTH NEWSPAPER REPORTER DETERMINED TO FOIL WONG'S NEFARIOUS SCHEME.
LUGOSI, DESPITE HIS SLAVIC ACCENT, PLAYS AN EVIL ORIENTAL MADMAN. HE'S AFTER THE TWELVE COINS OF CONFUCIUS WHICH, ACCORDING TO LEGEND, WILL MAKE HIM THE RULER OF A PROVINCE OF CHINA. HE OUTWITS THE COPS, BUT NOT WISECRACKING REPORTER FORD WHO ENDS UP SOLVING LUGOSI'S MYSTERIOUS MURDERS. THE SCENE IN LUGOSI'S TORTURE CHAMBER IS A
CLASSIC IN MADDENED CAMP. ETHNIC SLURS.
MR. WONG IS LORDLY & EXOTIC IN HIS ORIENTAL ROBES AND DROOPY MUSTACHE, ALA FU MANCHU. KEELAT SECRET SERVICE. "WHITE DEVIL" SLURS. AN INEPT, LIGHT-FINGERED IRISH COP. CHINESE LAUNDRY TICKET. LUNCH COUNTER SCENE. DRAGON RING.
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