Month: June 2023

Monogram Monday: Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

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The final film in Monogram’s James Lee Wong series of mysteries breaks with the previous pictures in what amounts to a “reboot.” Keye Luke takes over the role of the detective from Boris Karloff, and though Grant Withers does reappear as Captain Street, Bobbie Logan (Marjorie Reynolds), his foil and romantic interest in the previous …

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Monogram Monday: Partners of the Sunset (1948)

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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely, aided by his comic sidekick, Dub “Cannonball” Taylor, unravels a crafty plot that could have come straight out of a film noir from the same year. In this outing in Wakely’s Monogram series, a wealthy older ranch owner brings home a lovely young bride as well as her “brother.” When his …

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