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Aug 29, 1986 · Shanghai Surprise: Directed by Jim Goddard. With Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths. Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine.
Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 adventure comedy film directed by Jim Goddard and starring then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna. The screenplay was adapted by John Kohn and Robert Bentley from Tony Kenrick's 1978 novel Faraday's Flowers.
Shanghai Surprise (1986) - Original Trailer. In their only appearance together in a feature film, then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna team up for Jim Goddard’s bold adaptation of Tony Kenrick...
Rent Shanghai Surprise on Fandango at Home, or buy it on Fandango at Home. Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a sleazy, down-on-his-luck con man struggling to sell glow-in-the-dark neckties in Shanghai.
- Crime, Drama
Walter Faraday, known as the Opium King and a supplier named Mei Gan battle over a valuable supply of the drug and Faraday is killed. A year later, missionary Gloria Tatlock comes in search of Faraday's legendary opium to relieve the pain of injured soldiers.
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.
Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.
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.
Shanghai Surprise. In this romantic adventure-comedy set in the turbulent 1930s, a sharp-witted, very honorable American fortune hunter (Sean Penn) and a beautiful, fairly honorable missionary (Madonna) join forces to seek out a legendary cache of stolen opium!
Shanghai Surprise. In 1937 Shanghai, a struggling tie salesman / fortune hunter (Sean Penn) loouking for a way to escape China and a missionary nurse (Madonna) form an unlikely partnership to locate 'Faraday's Flowers' - a hidden stash of opium that can be used to treat wounded soldiers.
