Shanghai Surprise

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-08-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

2.9 (3895 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Goddard

Genres:

Adventure Crime Drama

Cast:

Sean Penn Madonna Paul Freeman Richard Griffiths

Writer:

John Kohn (screenplay)

Robert Bentley (screenplay)

Tony Kenrick (from the novel "Faraday's Flowers")

Fullplot:

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.

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