Synopsis
A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.
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Key crew
- Gerard Fort BuckleWriter
- Sax RohmerWriter
- René PlaissettyDirector
Cast
- Sydney SeawardInspector Dunbar
- Arthur M. CullinDr. Cumberley
- Harvey BrabanGaston Max
- Annie EsmondDenise Ryland
- Norman PageSoames
- Kitty FielderLady of the Poppies
- Kiyoshi TakaseHo-Pin
- A.C. Fotheringham-LysonsHenry Leroux
- Mary MassartHelen Cumberley
- Cyril PercivalJohn Howard Edel
- Ivy KingMrs. Leroux
- June TrippMrs. Vernon