A rather dated view of Chinatown, containing a fair bit of action though certainly full of dated stereotypes. Louie Toy (Tojo Fujita) is a merchant (and drug smuggler) who refuses to pay the Tongs protection money. The Tong task their top assassin Luk Chen (Sessue Hakayama) with assassinating Toy. One complication however, is that Chen is in love with Toy's daughter Sen Chee (Helen Jerome Eddy)...
Another complication is that Toy has given safe harbour to a murderous sailor on the run from the police (Yukata Abe), and he is obviously keen to have Toy's back. Yet another complication is the San Francisco Police sniffing around...
So, a world of opium dens, gambling debts, pigtails and endless intrigue and murder. The fact the Tong seem to get their orders from the statue of a dragon is genuinely hilarious. The film is a bit contrived but the film is well made, the story is nonsense though!
