The Yellow Claw

The Yellow Claw

1921 · ★ 8.0 · Crime

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.

Directed by René Plaissetty · Written by Gerard Fort Buckle

Your Rating

Cast

More from René PlaissettySee all →

Burning chairBurning chair · 1932
Burning chair
10.01932
MovieDrama
A young bourgeois lady leaves her husband to spend three passionate, violent days with a criminal she is in love with.
Une étoile de cinémaUne étoile de cinéma · 1919
Une étoile de cinéma
9.01919
Movie
Mission to MoscowMission to Moscow · 1943
Mission to Moscow
5.71943
MovieWarDrama
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Her Great MatchHer Great Match · 1915
Her Great Match
1915
MovieRomanceDrama
While vacationing in America, Prince Adolph of Syravia meets Jo Sheldon and they fall in love. Wealthy Mr. Bote, a friend of Jo's family whose ambition is to become a baron, gives Jo's stepmother money to pay her creditors, in return for a forged note in Jo's name which promises that Jo will marry the prince and have him bestow the title on Bote.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter