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Auction History Result 5t0642 PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN 3 LCs 1940 Keye Luke & Lotus Long scared by knife stuck in wall! Date Sold 9/15/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Phantom of Chinatown, the 1940 Phil Rosen Asian detective mystery crime thriller ("Original Story by Ralph Bettinson"; "Based on the Collier's Magazine stories by Hugh Wiley") starring Keye Luke (as Mr. Wong), Lotus Long, Grant Withers, Paul McVey, and Charles F. Miller. Note that there was a character called "Mr. Wong" in the 1935 movie "The Mysterious Mr. Wong", and he was played by Bela Lugosi. In 1938, "Mr. Wong, Detective" was made, starring Boris Karloff in the title role, and this Mr. Wong was an Chinese detective and had no relationship to the earlier Bela Lugosi character (this was based on a series of "James Lee Wong" stories in Collier's Magazine written by Hugh Wiley). This proved popular, and there were four more movies with Karloff playing Mr. Wong in 1939 and 1940. In 1940, he left the role, and one more movie was made, "Phantom of Chinatown", starring Keye Luke in the lead role, but that was the last of the series (perhaps it was the loss of Karloff that ended the series, or perhaps 1940 was not a good time for U.S. movies with an Asian hero). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a very rare group of lobby cards for this movie! We have only auctioned two scene cards for this film previously (and that was in 2002!) and we have never auctioned the scene card pictured at upper left before. Condition: good to very good. Each of the cards has darkened along the right border. Two have some staining on back but the card pictured at lower left has some visible staining on the front. Please see our super-sized images to get a good sense of the condition of these items prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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