The kind of play that was popular in the 30s. Someone some day should write a book on how they feed into the mysteries that were being written at the time. Murders in steam rooms and dark screening-rooms would be really effective in the theatre. I recognised few of the actors. They are usually seen in stagey, static tableaux, with few close-ups. Philip Ahn is incapable of being bad, even when half-naked and worshipping a cobra god. He went on to better things as Prince Chung in one of the Mr Moto films.
Review of The Cobra Strikes
