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Title: Shanghai Surprise (1986)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sean Penn | ... | Glendon Wasey | |
| Madonna | ... | Gloria Tatlock | |
| Paul Freeman | ... | Walter Faraday | |
| Richard Griffiths | ... | Willie Tuttle | |
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Philip Sayer | ... | Justin Kronk |
| Clyde Kusatsu | ... | Joe Go | |
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Kay Tong Lim | ... | Mei Gan |
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Sonserai Lee | ... | China Doll |
| Victor Wong | ... | Ho Chong | |
| Professor Toru Tanaka | ... | Yamagani San | |
| Michael Aldridge | ... | Mr. Burns | |
| Sarah Lam | ... | China Doll's Maid | |
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George She | ... | Wu Ch'En She |
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Won Gam Bor | ... | Rickshaw King |
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To Chee Kan | ... | China Doll's Boatman |
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Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai. Written by Mehmet Karaca <mkaraca@ibm.net>
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
29 August 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$17,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$719,885, 1 September 1986, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$2,315,683Company Credits
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Title Card: Shanghai 1937
Title Card: The Year of the Japanese Occupation
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Music & Lyrics by George Harrison
Performed by George Harrison
Courtesy of Dark Horse Records & Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
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The opening title design was done by Maurice Binder with the sequence deliberately evoking the one he had done for the earlier James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967) which, ironically, had debuted around the time that Shanghai Surprise (1986)'s director Jim Goddard had started directing in British television. See more »Goofs
When Wasey and Miss Tatlock catch up with Faraday in the ship's cabin, the amount of shaving-foam on Faraday's face varies between shots. See more »Quotes
[first title card]Title Card: Shanghai 1937
Title Card: The Year of the Japanese Occupation
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Someplace ElseMusic & Lyrics by George Harrison
Performed by George Harrison
Courtesy of Dark Horse Records & Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
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There is no reason to struggle with justifications, nor to reach for words to describe such an amateurish, hackneyed, stilted, banal ... well, there I go. Just suffice to it say that it is completely understandable why the talented Mr. Penn reportedly chose to stay drunk for every shooting day of this miserable, limp, pointless ... you see where I'm going. However bad you remember it to be, you must re-see it to believe it. Madonna is the worst American actress of all time without peer. The only thing she's done on film that is worth seeing is Evita (a music video) and "Desperately Seeking Susan" (in which she has little dialog and rolls her eyes a lot).