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The Fatal Hour ()

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When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
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James Lee Wong
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Bobbie Logan
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Bill Street
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John T. Forbes
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Harry Lockett
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Frank Belden Jr.
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Tanya Serova
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Detective Ballard
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Frank Belden Sr.
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Griswold (as Jason Robards)
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Jeweler
Jack Kennedy ...
Mike
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Cap Anderson (uncredited)
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Radio Station Owner (uncredited)
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Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Nick Copeland ...
Crank Informant (uncredited)
Pauline Drake ...
Bessie (uncredited)
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Radio Salesman (uncredited)
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Hotel Maid (uncredited)
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Soapy (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Drunk (uncredited)
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Police Medical Examiner (uncredited)
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Card Player (uncredited)
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Policeman Clancy (uncredited)
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Homer Lyons (uncredited)

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William Nigh

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Scott Darling ... (screen play)
 
George Waggner ... (adaptation) (as Joseph West)
 
Hugh Wiley ... (magazine series "James Lee Wong")

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William T. Lackey ... associate producer (as William Lackey)

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Harry Neumann ... director of photography

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Russell F. Schoengarth ... (as R. F. Schoengarth)

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Gordon Bau ... makeup artist (uncredited)

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Charles J. Bigelow ... production manager (as Chas. J. Bigelow)
Scott R. Dunlap ... in charge of production

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W.B. Eason ... assistant director

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Karl Zint ... recording engineer

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Louis Brown ... wardrobe
Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

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Edward J. Kay ... musical director (as Edward Kay) / composer: stock music (uncredited)

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E.R. Hickson ... technical director
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SFPD Detective Dan Grady's murdered body is pulled from San Francisco Harbor, the news hitting his friend and colleague Captain Bill Street hard. Assisting Street in the investigation is PI James Lee Wong, who Street believes may be able to provide his Asian expertise in Grady, working on his own, having been on a smuggling assignment, most goods into the harbor, where Grady seemed to have based his operation in having been found in a seaman's uniform, coming from East Asia. Also inserting herself into the investigation is Herald reporter Bobbie Logan, with who Street has a love/hate relationship, the hate in she being a thorn in his professional side in doing anything for the exclusive scoop. The investigation has two initial leads, one to Belden's Jewelers, Frank Belden who is close to going into receivership. The other is the Neptune Cafe, run by shady businessman "Hardway" Harry Locket. While the investigation goes full circle in there being a tie between Belden and Locket, the question Wong, Street and Logan have to answer is who pulled the proverbial trigger, the suspect list which extends to people in Belden and Locket's orbit. Written by Huggo

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Also Known As
  • Mr. Wong at Headquarters (United States)
  • Mr. Wong at Headquarters (United Kingdom)
  • La hora fatal (Spain)
  • La hora fatídica (Spain)
  • L'ora fatale (Italy)
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Trivia William Nigh, who directed this and the other four films in Monogram Pictures' Mr. Wong series, was a prolific director of B movies, with more than 200 titles in his IMDb filmography. Before turning to directing, Nigh had been an actor, whose credits include being one of the original Keystone Kops in silent comedies for Mack Sennett. See more »
Goofs The execution of the murderer's plot requires precise actions during the minutes between 10:00 and 10:15 p.m., to coordinate the radio, the telephone call to the switchboard girl, etc. If one puts together all the information about times and actions given in the four relevant scenes -- in Forbes's home office with Street and Wong, in Tanya's apartment with the switchboard girl explaining to Street what she heard and when, in Wong's discussion with the radio station owner about when the program started and stopped, and in the final confrontation of the murderer with Wong where he explains the timing of his actions -- one sees that the timing described in all these different scenes can't be harmonized. To give only one of many inconsistencies, when Street and Wong enter Forbes's office it is at most 1 or 2 minutes after 10:00 (based on the henchman's announcement of 10:00), and they are there for much less than 13 or 14 minutes of real-time conversation, yet during their time there they get a call from police headquarters about the murder which the switchboard girl didn't report to the police until after 10:15. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Episode #1.12 (2007). See more »
Quotes Bill Street: I'll see you later.
Bobbie Logan: Not me, flat foot. Get one of the nurses out of the receiving hospital. They don't mind a pain in the neck.
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