Chinatown After Dark

Chinatown After Dark (1931)

Genres - Mystery, Crime  |   Sub-Genres - Melodrama  |   Release Date - Oct 15, 1931 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 50 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Review by Hans J. Wollstein

The daughter of a rabbi, exotic Carmel Myers was a popular screen femme fatale in the silent era, especially after playing the seductive Iras in Ben Hur (1925). But sound played havoc with bodice-ripping sirens like Myers, and here she is lounging about in silk kimonos and smoking slightly suspect cigarettes in an obscure Ralph M. Like production from Action Pictures. Generally fast-paced if not exactly memorable, Chinatown After Dark is a typical early Poverty Row programmer, brimming with scenery-chewing former silent screen stars who, like Miss Myers, must have been wondering what on earth they were doing in a cheap Ralph M. Like production.