"The Law Of The Tong" is a low budget film from poverty row and was made to entertain. The filmmakers never intended to create a masterpiece. The one and only review on this database is so full of hate for this picture that it's amazing. It even goes so far as to claim that one of the main actors, Jason Robards, Jr, was in the film. He would have been 9 years old; it was his father who played the part, Jason Robards, Sr. It cannot even get the summary correct, claiming that the main female character ran out of a bar when she worked in a dance hall. The rant which poses as a review goes on, but this one will stop here.
2 Reviews
Bottom of the double bill, and filled with crap!
mark.waltz18 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
A vile and wretched piece of celluloid creakiness, this poverty row melodrama ranks among the worst of the Tong films. It concerns a shady lady who runs out of the dive bar where she works, probably as a penny a dance girl, and ends up unconscious on the street, waking up in the Tong area of Chinatown where nothing really happens of interest, changing when she is taken in by kindly missionaries, running into an old lover whom we are supposed to assume she shared a shady past with. But once a part of the Tong, always a part of the Tong, and violence is threatened against her and her lover, culminating in a shootout between Tong members, making us supposed to believe that the man who rescued her (Jason Robards Jr.) was in love with her. Phyllis Barrington is unremarkable and nearly a silent film style heroine who is more likely to gain groans than sympathy. It is ironic that her character name is Joan Davis, because she shares absolutely nothing in common with the later female comic. As part of a double bill with "The Secret of Wu Sin", I'm glad that I watched the other one first; had I watched this one, I may have skipped on the other.
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