The Hatchet Man (1932)

THE HATCHET MAN  (1932)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: William Wellman
    Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges,
    Leslie Fenton, Tully Marshall, J. Carrol Naish
A pre-Code oddity starring Edward G. Robinson as an enforcer (a literal "hatchet man") in a tong war. Loretta Young plays his beloved wife, who runs away with a younger man and ends up working as a concubine in an opium den. Robinson doesn't look remotely Chinese, but when he picks up a hatchet, watch out.