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Limehouse Blues

Limehouse Blues

1934Movie⏱️ 1h 3mApproved
CrimeDramaRomance
6.1
IMDB Rating
127 votes

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seedy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class wh...

Director
Alexander Hall
Writers
Cyril Hume, Arthur Phillips, Grover Jones
Stars
George Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong
Release Date
December 11, 1934
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 9
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

George Raft
George Raft
as Harry Young
Jean Parker
Jean Parker
as Toni
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong
as Tu Tuan
Kent Taylor
Kent Taylor
as Eric Benton
Montagu Love
Montagu Love
as Pug Talbot
Billy Bevan
Billy Bevan
as Herb
👤
John Rogers
as Smokey
👤
Robert Loraine
as Inspector Sheridan
E. Alyn Warren
E. Alyn Warren
as Ching Lee
Wyndham Standing
Wyndham Standing
as Assistant Commissioner Kenyon

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
Paramount Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

CrimeDramaRomance

⭐ Featured Review

Uninteresting
by view_and_review2024-06-08
4/10

""Limehouse Blues" was a very uninteresting movie I only watched for Anna May Wong. It starred George Raft as Harry Young, a half-Chinese, half-white man who was a criminal who immersed himself in Chinese culture and customs until he got stuck on an American girl named Toni (Jean Parker). He spent great efforts trying to impress her and make her love him, and in return she fell in love with a pet shop manager named Eric Benton (Kent Taylor). As for Ann May Wong, she was largely in the background brooding over the fact that Harry was in love with a white woman. There wasn't a w..."

💡 Did You Know?

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; re-titled "East End Chant," this film's earliest documented telecast took place in Denver Saturday 11 July 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9).

📖 Synopsis

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seedy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class wh...