Shanghai Madness
"WHO CARES FOR THE FUTURE...THERE IS NONE IN SHANGHAI"
1933 · 1h 8m · N/A
Adventure, Drama
Directed by
John G. Blystone
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Shanghai Madness
Overview
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
Director and cast
- John G. Blystone Director
- Spencer Tracy as Pat Jackson
- Fay Wray as Wildeth Christie
- Ralph Morgan as Li Po Chang
- Eugene Pallette as Lobo Lonergan
- Herbert Mundin as Larsen
- Reginald Mason as William Christie
- Arthur Hoyt as Van Emery
- Albert Conti as Rigaud
- Maude Eburne as Mrs. Glissen
- Wilhelm von Brincken as von Uhlenberg
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