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Undercover cops Jack Wilson (Lon Chaney jr), Wu Ting (Philip Ahn) & Green
(Richard Cramer) are hot on the trail of international jewel thief Johnny Fly
(Manuel Lopez), a trail that leads them to Siongapore. But that can't stop from
assaulting & robbing rich jeweller Bentley (John Ince) while Jack Wilson
was just a few feet away (literally), flirting with his niece Edith (Sheila
Terry). However, Johnny did not get what he wanted - the Eye of Buddha, a most
valuable ruby -, & so assumes Edith must have the ruby on her - an
assumption that would prove to be right, in fact.
So, Johnny soon has Edith abducted &, when Wu Ting follows, has him
killed by his henchman Butch (Lon Chaney jr again), whose bar he uses as front.
But Wu Ting - with his last breath - leaves a message for Jack, the drawing of
an eye, & when Jack meets Butch - who only has one eye - under suspicious
circumstances, he makes his own conclusions, & has Butch arrested.
He then dresses up as Butch himself & soon has the honours of meeting
Johnny Fly as well as his lover Mora (Zarah Tazil), who is jealous over
Johnny's beautiful captive Edith, & decides to use Jack - who she believes
to be Butch - to get her revenge on Johnny. Soon a massive fight breaks out
between Jack & Johnny, & Edith & Mora, respectively, & in the
end, all is resolved by inspector Green, arriving with the cavallery ... er,
police.
In 1935, Lon Chaney jr still tried to gain a reputation by playing small
parts at the major studios under his real name Creighton Chaney. Scream in
the Night, at its time only modestly successful at best, would be his first
starring role as well as the first movie he would star in as Lon Chaney jr,
to cash in on his father's reputation (Chaney jr would even be advertised with
"the man with a 1,000 faces" here, in close relation to his
father's slogan "the man of a 1,000 faces"). And Chaney jr is
actually pretty good in this one, playing both the handsome police officer
& the camp brute with equal conviction. All in all, this
shoestring-crimethriller cleverly disguises its budgetary restraints with
exotic (if cheapish) costumes & sets as well as a colourful cast generally
delivering solid performances,
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