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6.6/10   83 votes
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Director:
Robert Florey
Writers:
Gladys Unger (screenplay) and
Garnett Weston (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
17 December 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Chinese-American woman tries to expose illegal alien smuggling ring. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Lost treasure of the film with the great Anna May Wong more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Anna May Wong ... Lan Ying Lin
Charles Bickford ... Otto Hartman
Buster Crabbe ... Andrew Sleete (as Larry Crabbe)
Cecil Cunningham ... Mrs. Mary Hunt
J. Carrol Naish ... Frank Barden

Anthony Quinn ... Harry Morgan
John Patterson ... James Lang
Evelyn Brent ... Olga Derey
Philip Ahn ... Kim Lee
Fred Kohler ... Captain Gulner
Guy Bates Post ... Lloyd Burkett
Virginia Dabney ... Rita - a Dancer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Daughter of the Orient (UK)
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Runtime:
62 min (copyright length) (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Cantonese
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3775) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1938)

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Trivia:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
Soundtrack:
It's Raining in Shanghai more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Lost treasure of the film with the great Anna May Wong, 20 January 2008
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Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

The great Anna May Wong stars as a Chinese girl who is trying to track down her fathers killers after he is rubbed out for trying to stop the flow of illegal aliens. Wong the only Chinese American to star in films in the 1920's and 1930's. She exudes sensuality and was a damn fine actress to boot. Here she does it all as she goes from San Fransico to South America in trying to reveal the head of the smuggling ring. Its gritty and nasty in surprising ways especially for a code production. The smoldering sexuality of the dive in South America seems to have come from the gritty films of the late 1940's or the precode films of the 1930s. Frankly this is a lost treasure. This is a movie that is perfectly paced to keep you watching with twist and turn and odd twist. Only when a Deus ex Machina shows up towards the end that it shows its programmer heritage. The cast is a who's who of mid-level stars to be in Buster Crabbe, Charles Bickford, J Carol Nash and some Irishman named Anthony Quinn. This is 63 minutes of pure enjoyment. I can't recommend this enough, and while it ain't the best of the best, its near that.

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