The Fatal Hour
Year: 1940
Studio: Monogram Pictures
Director: William Nigh
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, Charles Trowbridge, Frank Puglia, Craig Reynolds
Crew: William Nigh (Director), Hugh Wiley (Characters), Scott R. Dunlap (Producer), Scott Darling (Screenplay), George Waggner (Adaptation), Louis Brown (Costume Design)
Runtime: 68 minutes
Release: Jan 15, 1940
IMDb: 5.90/10 by 18 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

Maybe not one of the better "Wong" (Boris Karloff) outings this, but it still moves along well enough. This time, it's a long time friend of "Capt. Street" (Grant Withers) who comes a cropper and the two, along with pesky investigative journalist "Bobbie" (Marjorie Reynolds) must get to the bottom of things as the corpses begin, quite literally, to pile up! The production looks hastily thrown together, the lighting really needed a few more bucks in the meter and the script could have been doing with a little more substance. That said, it has the odd humorous touch and Reynolds is quite efficient in support of our not particularly dynamic duo. Watchable, but forgettable fayre.