Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose illegal alien smuggling ring.
In an unidentified airplane flying over the ocean in which six aliens are huddled, alien-smugglers Frank Barden and Andrew Sleete are trying to evade a government pursuit plane. They dump the screaming “evidence” into the sea. Escaping pursuit, they later approach wealthy merchant Quan Lin and demand he take some aliens off of their hands. They kill him when he refuses. Lan Ying Lin, his daughter, goes to wealthy society matron Mrs. Mary Hunt for help. She introduces her to an inspector and Kim Lee, a government agent. Unknown to all, Mrs. Hunt is the power behind the smuggling ring. 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. She gets the evidence on Hartman and flees the island with agent Lee, disguised as a man, in the hold of the smuggling vessel. They are discovered by the ship’s …
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Director: Robert Florey
Actors: Agostino Borgato, Alex Woloshin, Alma Ross, Andre Marsaudon, Anna May Wong, Anthony Quinn, Archie Twitchell, Beal Wong, Billy Jones, Blanca Vischer, Bruce Wong, Buster Crabbe, Carmen Bailey, Carmen Laroux, Cecil Cunningham, Charles Bickford, Charles C Wilson, Chick Collins, Ching Wah Lee, Constantine Romanoff, Evelyn Brent, Frank Sully, Fred Kohler, Gino Corrado, Guy Bates Post, Gwen Kenyon, Harriette Haddon, Harry Strang, Helaine Moler, J. Carrol Naish, James Dime, Jimmie Dundee, John Hart, John Patterson, Joyce Mathews, Kit Guard, Layne Tom Jr, Lee Shumway, Mae Busch, Marie Burton, Mrs Wong Wing, Natalie Schafer, Norah Gale, Paul Fix, Paula DeCardo, Paulita Arvizu, Pierre Watkin, Sammee Tong, Sheila Darcy, Tina Menard, Virginia Dabney, Wong Chung
Country: USA