Limehouse Blues (also known as East End Chant) is a 1934 American crime film, directed by Alexander Hall.

Young is a recent arrival in London, but he has managed to take over crime operations in his area.

She believes her lover has fallen in love with the "white girl" and warns him against fruitlessly pursuing her.

Worried that a jealous Tu Tuan might hurt Toni, Young removes the pickpocket from his operations.

Tu Tuan derides Young for his unrequited love for a white woman, before ending her own relationship with him.

Young calls off the murder in time, and manages to clear Toni's name from any involvement in crime.

The role was originally intended for Sylvia Sidney, but she turned down offers to play in the film.

Parker was under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the time, and Paramount Pictures had to come to an agreement to get the actress "loaned" to them.

[3] Wong told the press the real Limehouse wasn't "fully Chinese it was more Asiatic.

[7] Most sources credit the art direction of the film to Hans Dreier and Robert Usher.

[1] An early version of the script is preserved at the library files of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

[8] In a contemporary review in The New York Times, film critic Andre Sennwald described the film as a "clutching-hand melodrama," with Raft having "difficulty in persuading us that he is a gallant half-breed Chinaman who is the great scourge of Scotland Yard [...] he suffers from an unhappy habit of pronouncing his words like the dance-hall vaqueros of lower Broadway."

The review also notes that the film "owns the most childlike scenario that the grown-up Broadway area has seen in many weeks and its chief virtue is to remind some of us novagenarians of the Yellow Peril literature of an earlier day.

"[9] A review of the film in The Boston Globe reported that "as a half-caste [Raft] is able to look stolid and be right in the part," that "the story is exciting enough to appeal to the most thrill-loving members of the audience," and that "there is a brilliant supporting cast.

"[10] In describing the film for The Chicago Tribune, Mae Tinée wrote that "the picture, as a whole, is about as enjoyable as the dark brown taste and the cold, gray dawn of a morning after [...] there is little to commend 'Limehouse Blues' save satisfactory acting.