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Shanghai Surprise

Release Date:August 29, 1986

Running Time:97 min

Genres:Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance

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Cast

Sean Penn Madonna Paul Freeman Richard Griffiths Clyde Kusatsu Philip Sayer Lim Kay Tong Victor Wong Chi-Keung Professor Toru Tanaka Michael Aldridge Sarah Lam George Harrison

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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