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Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 American crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford and Buster Crabbe. Unusually for the time, East Asian American actors played the lead roles. It was also one of the first films in which Anthony Quinn appeared.
Turning detective to catch her father's killers, Lan Ying Lin finds herself on a remote island where she takes a job as a dancer in a honky tonk operated by Otto Hartman, and discovers the island resort is a blind for an alien receiving station.
A Chinese-American (Anna May Wong) avenges her father, slain by smugglers led by a San Francisco socialite. Led by a mesmerizing Anna May Wong, Daughter of Shanghai is a revenge thriller fueled...
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- Anna May Wong
- Robert Florey
- Crime, Drama
A film about a Chinese woman who becomes a nightclub singer in Shanghai and falls in love with an American sailor. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and other crew members who worked on this classic movie.
Daughter of Shanghai (1937) 1937 USA Directed by Robert Florey Written by Gladys Unger, Garnett Weston Featuring Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford.
Fantastically plotted and directed to pack two hours worth of story into its 62-minute runtime, Robert Florey’s Daughter of Shanghai stars the pioneering Anna May Wong as Lan Ying Lin, a San Francisco woman searching for the human traffickers who murdered her father. From the intense airborne sequence that opens the film, the pacing never ...
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
