Daughter of Shanghai (1937) DVD-R

Starring Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, J.
Carrol Naish, Evelyn Brent, Anthony Quinn
Directed by Robert Florey

Print: black/white
Runtime: 63 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of
Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the criminals who murdered her father. The villains are
running an illegal-alien operation, smuggling cheap Chinese and Mexican labor into San
Francisco and killing those unlucky souls who prove 'inconvenient'. Wong takes a job as an
exotic dancer in a Central American nitery, hoping to trap the murderers in the act. Though
J. Carroll Naish and Buster Crabbe are top-billed, the actual hero of Daughter of Shanghai is
Chinese actor Philip Ahn, playing an FBI agent protecting Wong from the bad guys.