Daughter of the Dragon

Sep 24, 1931

1h 10m

★ 5.1

Sworn to kill-cruelly-even the man she loves! With her slender fingers the relentless Fu-Manchu reaches from the grave to complete his vengeance!

Overview

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Daughter of the Dragon Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Joan Marshall

Frances Dade

Ah Kee

Sessue Hayakawa

Ling Moy

Anna May Wong

Ronald Petrie

Bramwell Fletcher

Sir John Petrie

Holmes Herbert

Sir Basil Courtney

Lawrence Grant

Fu Manchu

Warner Oland

Rogers

Harold Minjir

Morloff

Nicholas Soussanin

Lu Chung

E. Alyn Warren

Amah (uncredited)

Oie Chan

Henchman (uncredited)

Wong Chung

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

6.1

Drums of Fu Manchu

Mar 15, 1940

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.

7.5

The Thin Man

May 25, 1934

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

3.5

Once a Lady

Nov 7, 1931

A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.

4.4

Paris Bound

Aug 3, 1929

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.

8.1

M

May 11, 1931

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

4.8

Dancers in the Dark

Mar 11, 1932

A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.

7.4

Trouble in Paradise

Oct 30, 1932

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

6.2

Hannibal Rising

Feb 6, 2007

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

7.0

Two Alone

Jan 26, 1934

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.

4.0

Traveling Husbands

Aug 15, 1931

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.

7.0

American Madness

Aug 15, 1932

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.

7.2

Open Range

Aug 11, 2003

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

5.4

Liberty Stands Still

Jan 18, 2002

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.

5.3

The Devil Is Driving

Dec 9, 1932

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.

6.0

Blondie of the Follies

Sep 1, 1932

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.

6.1

Blondie Johnson

Feb 25, 1933

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.