China Passage (1937)
Trapped by Shanghai's Diamond Smugglers!
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.
- Date of release
- 1937-03-12
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Adventure, Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Edward Killy
Casting
- Constance Worth — Jane Dunn
- Vinton Hayworth — Tommy Baldwin
- Leslie Fenton — Anthony Durand
- Gordon Jones — Joe Dugan
- Alec Craig — Harvey Dinwiddle
- Dick Elliott — Philip Burton
- Frank M. Thomas — Captain Williams
- George Irving — Dr. Sibley
- Billy Gilbert — Bartender
- Joyce Compton — Elaine Gentry
- Philip Ahn — Fang Tu
- Lotus Long — Lia Sen
Interesting facts
China Passage is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Edward Killy from a screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann and J. Robert Bren, based on a story by Taylor Caven. RKO Radio Pictures produced the film, which stars Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton and Gordon Jones. Haworth was injured in an automobile accident in January 1937, delaying the film's released until March 12, 1937.
Production
RKO obtained the rights to Taylor Craven's original story, Miss Customs Agent, in July 1936, and its title was also the film's working title. Edward Killy was assigned to direct the film in mid-October, and filming was slated to begin in mid-November.
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