The best Anna May Wong’s movies

Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong

03/01/1905- 02/02/1961
Today we present the best Anna May Wong’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Anna May Wong’s movies.
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The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad
7.7/10
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Impact

Impact
7/10
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express
7.3/10
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan
7.1/10
Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.

The Savage Innocents

The Savage Innocents
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1960
  • Character: Hiku
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Daughter of the Dragon

Daughter of the Dragon
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/09/1931
  • Character: Ling Moy
Princess Ling Moy, a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr. Fu Manchu, a brilliant but twisted genius who is out to rule the world. She is involved with Ah Kee, a handsome young man, who also unbeknownst to her, is a secret agent out to thwart the heinous plots of Fu Manchu. As it turns out, Fu is not only her next-door neighbor, he is also, (unbeknownst to her), her father. When she finds out, will she take her father's part and fight the men out to get Fu, or will she become a brave heroine and save the world even if it is from the devious doings of her own Dad? -Written by Jim Knoppow

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/03/1927
  • Character: Loo Song
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Piccadilly

Piccadilly
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/02/1929
  • Character: Shosho
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet
5.6/10
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying--Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.

Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black
6.3/10
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

Bombs Over Burma

Bombs Over Burma
5.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 05/06/1942
  • Character: Lin Ying
The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent

Elstree Calling

Elstree Calling
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/02/1930
  • Character: Herself / Katherina in Taming of the Shrew
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Daughter of Shanghai

Daughter of Shanghai
6.6/10
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1934
  • Character: Lui Chang
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.

The Toll of the Sea

The Toll of the Sea
6.6/10
An American sailor marries then deserts the Chinese beauty who had saved his life.

Drifting

Drifting
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/08/1923
  • Character: Rose Li
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.

Dinty

Dinty
6.9/10
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.

Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/02/1924
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.

Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/01/1926
  • Character: Nan Lo
When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
5.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 24/03/1941
  • Character: Lois Ling
Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.

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