I Cover Chinatown


I Cover Chinatown is a 1936 American crime film directed by Norman Foster and starring Foster, Elaine Shepard and Theodore von Eltz. A San Francisco Chinatown tour guide gets mixed up with a murder. It was Foster's debut as a director and one of his final appearances as an actor.

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In his 1973 book, B Movies, film historian Don Miller noted that, for an independent production, I Covered Chinatown "showed a bit of class, rare then," and led directly to Foster's contract with 20th [Century Studios|20th Century-Fox] and his later notable career as a film director.