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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.
Daughter of Shanghai: Directed by Robert Florey. With Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham. A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Robert Florey
- 1937-12-17
Anna May Wong's second film for Paramount, Daughter of Shanghai (1937), directed by Robert Florey, opens with a montage juxtaposing San Francisco newspaper headlines with footage of a small airplane loaded with Chinese people and flown by Harry Morgan (Anthony Quinn) and an associate.
- Robert Florey, Stanley Goldsmith
- Anna May Wong
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 ...
“Daughter of Shanghai” to director Robert Florey, a French émigré who was also an enthusiastic devo-tee of Far Eastern art. Many of his masks, swords, costumes, and furnishings decorate the sets in this picture. Florey had directed in Switzerland, France, Morocco, England, and Germany, and earlier in the
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One false move meant death! A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring. Cast.
1937 USA Directed by Robert Florey Written by Gladys Unger, Garnett Weston Featuring Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford
