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Shanghai Surprise
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy breezy, old-fashioned caper-romances with colorful settings, broad comedy, and knowingly pulpy adventure.
- Tone
- adventurous, playful, campy
- Payoff
- amusement, swoon
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- adventure, romance, smuggling, moral idealism, cultural collision
- Setting
- early twentieth-century, colonial-era Shanghai underworld
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