In fact, there are hardly any Asian characters. There's a minor plot involving the smuggling of illegal Asian immigrants, but all that is for the outline surrounding the main plot of Esther Ralston, the spoiled daughter of a local judge, being found inside an illegal gambling joint (you know the kind, where the guests guess which shell has a pea underneath it), arrested by detective Regis Toomey who's more interested in finding out who's behind this racket.
Toomey has been brought in by the police chief to supervise the original investigation by aging detective (scene stealing J. Farrell MacDonald), and ends up in a romance with the fun loving, rebellious Ms. Ralston. In spite of ridiculously awful script and a dull leading man, this is saved by the snappy pacing and villains that are so horribly cliched that a blind man selling pencils on the street would figure out how crooked they were instantaneously. MacDonald always steals scenes with his deliberate constantly befuddled line delivery, but that's not difficult when he's with Toomey who's trying to give a Lee Tracy style performance and can't manage to be convincing. Ralston plays a rather annoying spoiled character but instills her with a love of intrigue that redeems her somewhat. Still a poor cheapie poverty row programmer that doesn't live up to its exotic title, saved somewhat by a plane chase at the end.
Toomey has been brought in by the police chief to supervise the original investigation by aging detective (scene stealing J. Farrell MacDonald), and ends up in a romance with the fun loving, rebellious Ms. Ralston. In spite of ridiculously awful script and a dull leading man, this is saved by the snappy pacing and villains that are so horribly cliched that a blind man selling pencils on the street would figure out how crooked they were instantaneously. MacDonald always steals scenes with his deliberate constantly befuddled line delivery, but that's not difficult when he's with Toomey who's trying to give a Lee Tracy style performance and can't manage to be convincing. Ralston plays a rather annoying spoiled character but instills her with a love of intrigue that redeems her somewhat. Still a poor cheapie poverty row programmer that doesn't live up to its exotic title, saved somewhat by a plane chase at the end.