Daughter of the Tong is a 1939 crime film about a detective that goes against a female leader of an Oriental crime ring.

Plot

Ralph Dickson is an FBI agent assigned to investigate the killing of a colleague. He is chosen to investigate due to an uncanny likeness to the presumed killer. Dickson goes undercover and learns the identity of the gang leader, Carney, who is also known as "the Illustrious One" and the "Daughter of the Tong." Carney stays holed up at the Oriental Hotel while she has her henchmen doing her dirty work.

Cast

• Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...
  
   as Carney - The Illustrious One
• Grant Withers
  Grant Withers
  Grant Withers was an American film actor. With early beginnings in the silent era, Withers moved into talkies establishing himself with a list of headlined features as a young and handsome male lead...
  
   as Ralph Dickson
• Dorothy Short
  Dorothy Short
  Dorothy Short was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become...
  
   as Marion Morgan
• Dave O'Brien
  Dave O'Brien (actor)
  Dave O'Brien was an American film actor, director and writer. Born David Poole Fronabarger in Big Spring, Texas, O'Brien started his film career in bit parts before gradually winning larger roles, mostly in B pictures....
  
   as Jerry Morgan
• Richard Loo
  Richard Loo
  Richard Loo was a Chinese American film actor who was one of the most familiar Asian character actors in American films of the 1930s and 1940s. A prolific actor, he appeared in over 120 films between 1931 and 1982....
  
   as Wong, the hotel clerk
• Dirk Thane as Henchman Ward
• Harry Harvey
  Harry Harvey (actor)
  Harry Harvey was an American actor.- Career :Born in Indian Territory, U.S.. Was a film character actor, he has more 300 appeared in television series and movies...
  
   as Harold 'Mugsy' Winthrop
• Budd Buster as 'Lefty' McMillan
• Robert Frazer
  Robert Frazer
  rightRobert W. Frazer born Robert William Browne on 29 June 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, US, was an American actor who appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death on 17 August 1944 in Los Angeles, California, US, due to leukemia...
  
   as FBI Chief Williams
• Hal Taliaferro as FBI Agent Lawson

Distributors

• Times Exchange (1939) (USA) (theatrical)
• Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (VHS)
• Alpha Video Distributors (June 28, 2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Mill Creek Entertainment
  Mill Creek Entertainment
  Mill Creek Entertainment is a home entertainment company that manufactures movie and television DVD compilation box sets at "value" prices. Nashville's Amity Entertainment is an affiliate to Mill Creek...
  
  (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2007) (non-USA) (all media)