Shanghai Madness

Shanghai Madness

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

NR 1933 · 68 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama, Adventure

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.

Directed by John G. Blystone · Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan

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