The "Mr. Wong" played here by Bela Lugosi is not the same character as the "Mr. Wong" later played by Boris Karloff and Keye Luke in a series of six films. Lugosi's Fu Wong is a villain, while the James Lee Wong of the series is a detective in the vein of Charlie Chan. All seven movies were produced by the same Poverty Row studio, Monogram Pictures, but have no other affiliation.
This film is sometimes incorrectly identified as one of the films of the "Mr.Wong" series which was also produced by Monogram (in the late 1930s) starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese detective.
Filmed mid October-November 1934, released January 25 1935 (copyright 1935).
Bela Lugosi's first film for Monogram.
The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in Los Angeles Monday 12 December 1949 on KTLA (Channel 5) and in New York City Thursday 20 July 1950 on WABD (Channel 5).