Dark theme:

Shanghai Surprise

Shanghai Surprise (1986)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romantic, Action, Adventure | UK

Director: Jim Goddard

Where to watch

Show not available in country

Rating: 3.3/10

User rating: 5.1/10
(7 votes)

SYNOPSIS

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.

Actors

Writer: John Kohn, Robert Bentley

Producer: Robin Douet, George Harrison

RUNTIME: 97 min

Reviews

No reviews

RECOMMENDATIONS

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys...
No Mercy (1986)

Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and...
Mohawk (1956)

An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when...
Gone Missing (2013)

When two best friends go missing during Spring Break, their mothers do everything they can to find them, while realizing that their different parenting styles may...
Loophole (1981)

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring...
Punisher: War Zone (2008)

Frank Castle, the ex-military man whose family was killed by criminals, who became a vigilante known as the Punisher, goes after a whole mob family and gets...
American Gigolo (1980)

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without...
Marnie (1964)

Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars....
Miami Vice (2006)

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida turns personal for detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx).
No Way Out (1987)

Famous for its limousine sex scene, yet actually rather a tame affair, this Kevin Costner spy and counter-spy thriller provides a gripping insight into the...
The Tourist (2010)

Romantic thriller. A mild-mannered American (Johnny Depp) on vacation in Venice is befriended by a beautiful woman (Angelina Jolie) with a mysterious secret.
Rio (2011)

In Rio de Janeiro, baby macaw, Blu, is captured by dealers and smuggled to the USA. While driving through Moose Lake, Minnesota, the truck that is transporting...