This very unusual and indeed captivating little B movie is a mixture of quite a variety of different issues: first, there's a kind of 'Romeo and Juliet' romance in Chinatown, where two young members of two rivaling old Chinese clans are desperately in love with each other, and are finally able to convince their fathers to agree to their marriage and bury the feud that has cost so many lives. But then, there are 'ordinary' white American crooks who are after the wedding gift, a precious old necklace, that the bridegroom's father wants to present to his former enemy's daughter - and they won't stop at anything in their greed, not even at reviving the family feud and make a 'blood wedding' out of the beautiful, peace-bringing romance... And then there is one of the typical reporter 'couples' with their usual 'love-hate' relationship that gets involved in the dangerous ongoings; and 'Tarzan', the police dog, as he's billed, but he's really a newsroom hound - a news hound in the REAL sense of the word! (And one of the best trained and most intelligent movie star dogs I've ever seen!)
There's a really CHILLING suspense that lasts from the first to the last moment of the film, mixed in quite a capable way with a 'doomed' love - and also some very nice, typical reporters' humor to lighten up the dark atmosphere. And the interesting point is that the senseless old Asian feud (and mark that: 'vendettas' like this one existed, and still exist, ALL over the world, among whites just like Asians or any other race!) is opposed to the reckless violence of the white gangsters who don't kill for 'honor', but just for sheer greed! And the characters are shaped out in a way that makes us feel EQUAL concern and agony about the Asian lovers and about the white reporter couple...
A very much underestimated, and perhaps also misinterpreted movie - I'd say that everyone should have a look (or a second look) first before judging it!
