{"id":35673,"date":"2024-04-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35673"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:26:06","slug":"doomed-to-die-1940-starring-boris-karloff-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35673","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Doomed to Die&#8221; (1940) starring Boris Karloff \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z042624zview_doomedtodie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Doomed to Die <\/strong><\/em>(1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>William Nigh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Hugh Wiley, Ralph Gilbert Bettison, Michael Jacoby<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, Henry Brandon, Richard Loo, Melvin Lang <\/strong>and<strong> Dick Fleming<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The master of crime cleans up the dirty game of murder!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cyrus Wentworth (Lang) was dealing with the aftermath from the fire and sinking of one of his ships.\u00a0 Four hundred lives were lost.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a good day.\u00a0 When William Stelling (Fleming) shows up, they can be heard arguing in Wentworth&#8217;s office.\u00a0 Stelling is the son of one of Wentworth&#8217;s competitors and his daughter&#8217;s fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suddenly a gunshot rings out.\u00a0 Stelling is seen standing over Wentworth&#8217;s dead body. A gun lies near the body.\u00a0 Police arrive and arrest Stelling.\u00a0 It appears to be an open-and-shut case.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the famous James Lee Wong (Karloff) is hired to determine the real killer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scenes of the burning ship were taken from newsreel footage of a real ocean liner that burned and sunk with tremendous loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>This is Boris Karloff&#8217;s fifth (and last) outing as detective James Lee Wong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Doomed to Die <\/strong><\/em>(1940) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z042624zview_doomedtodie2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doomed to Die (1940) Director: William Nigh Screenplay: Hugh Wiley, Ralph Gilbert Bettison, Michael Jacoby Stars: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35674,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions\/35674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}