Doomed to Die is a 1940 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong. It is a sequel to the 1940 film, The Fatal Hour.

Plot
When the head of a shipping company is murdered in his office the identity of the killer seems obvious. The killer is the son of the owner of a rival shipping company; the reason is the Romeo and Juliet romance between the killer and the murdered man’s daughter. They wanted to get married. The murdered man refused to give them his permission.

The murdered man’s daughter asks Mr. Wong to investigate. She hopes that Wong will be able to prove that her fiancé didn’t kill her father.

The killing took place a few days after the Wentworth Castle, one of the company’s liners, caught fire and sank with the loss of more than 400 lives. Once again, Wong is given important information by the leader of a powerful tong (Chinese secret society) that leads him to other suspects. The tong leader tells Wong that a member of the tong was smuggling a great amount of tong money into the United States aboard the Wentworth Castle. The smuggler is known to have survived the sinking but disappeared with the tong’s money.

Wong uses modern (for 1940) technology to recover seemingly “lost” evidence. He uncovers multiple conspiracies within the shipping company and succeeds in proving that the fiancé is not the murderer.

Cast
Boris Karloff as James Lee Wong
Marjorie Reynolds as Roberta “Bobbie” Logan
Grant Withers as Capt. William “Bill” Street
William Stelling as Dick Fleming
Catherine Craig as Cynthia Wentworth
Guy Usher – Paul Fleming
Henry Brandon as Victor “Vic” Martin
Melvin Lang as Cyrus P. Wentworth
Wilbur Mack as Matthews
Kenneth Harlan as Ludlow
Richard Loo as Tong leader