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i just got done watching this train wreck of a film and it is beyond awful. i've never seen a Charlie Chan film until i saw this one. and i love Boris Karloff as well. his scenes as it's been stated are very brief with him having very little dialog. The Directing is quite good actually. that's about the only nice thing i can say about it.

as a film it's badly written, badly acted and for a Charlie Chan film even if it's based off the original books he's not even in the film at all until 78 minutes in and has like 3 minutes of screen time.

he's barely even mentioned at all in the film even when he's not on screen. i've seen plenty of films from this era where the acting was really quite good. only other films i've seen from this period that i can think of from the top of my head are some of the crap that Joan Crawford was doing during this era. way before she got famous into what she later became. anyways. the acting is so bad that it reminds me of the B movies that were coming out in the 50's that you'd have to get drunk just to get through watching it cause on how bad they are.

i do plan on watching other Chan films of course but please stay away from this one unless you are a die hard Chan fan than watch it. but be warned that it's badly acted, badly written and frankly rather boring as well. my score 1/10

i also saw this film. it wasn't under "Sin's Pay Day' as the original title but the re-issue tittle of Slums Of New York' honestly the original title is better. in (1938) it was put out again and the copy i have has Mickey Rooney as the star when he's clearly not the star of the film.

it was cause he was a star at the time they put this out again. actually i believe he's credited Mickey McGuire in the original print. that print may be lost. but the re-issue clearly isn't. thank god for that. the previews Reviewer is Correct the law is totally different in (1932) than it is today. Mickey Rooney has a decent Size Role in it. and he's quite good. the print i saw was in terrible shape and it did skip. and the sound was off as well. but i'm not complaining that much cause it exists so that's all i care about.

the acting for everyone is top notch for my guess this B film that was made. Bess Flowers the legendary Extra who has done it is said over 1200 films is also in it. if you can find yourself a copy of it i highly recommend it.

I just got done watching this & you know what? it's not that great of a

short film. i loved the narration by the late & great & Underrated "John

Carradine" but the artwork wasn't that great.

nor was the story as good as say the (1949) "Disney" film but seeing as this was only 13 minutes. that can easily be forgiven. it's a decent

little film. that i don't think i really need to get into if you know

the story. but it's not a terrible little short either.

anyways i give it a 5/10 cause it was halfway decent. but not good enough that i'd watch it again.