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I Cover Chinatown (1936)

I Cover Chinatown poster
Directed by
Norman Foster
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A San Francisco Chinatown tour guide gets caught up in a murder case. The film follows his involvement with the crime.

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What happens

I Cover Chinatown is a 1936 American crime film directed by Norman Foster (in his directorial debut) and starring Foster, Elaine Shepard and Theodore von Eltz. A San Francisco Chinatown tour guide gets mixed up with a murder. It was Foster's debut as a director and one of his final appearances as an actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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