Shanghai Madness

Aug 3, 1933

1h 8m

★ 0.0

"WHO CARES FOR THE FUTURE...THERE IS NONE IN SHANGHAI"

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.

Genres

Drama

Adventure

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

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Cast

Pat Jackson

Spencer Tracy

Wildeth Christie

Fay Wray

Li Po Chang

Ralph Morgan

Lobo Lonergan

Eugene Pallette

Larsen

Herbert Mundin

William Christie

Reginald Mason

Van Emery

Arthur Hoyt

Rigaud

Albert Conti

Mrs. Glissen

Maude Eburne

von Uhlenberg

Wilhelm von Brincken

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