The best Richard Loo’s crime movies

Richard Loo

Richard Loo

01/10/1903- 20/11/1983
Today we present the best Richard Loo’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 Richard Loo’s movies.

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1938
  • Character: Sam Wong (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die
5.5/10
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.

The Clay Pigeon

The Clay Pigeon
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 03/03/1949
  • Character: Ken Tokoyama
A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.

Miracles for Sale

Miracles for Sale
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 10/08/1939
  • Character: Chinese Soldier in Demo
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

Confessions of an Opium Eater

Confessions of an Opium Eater
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/06/1962
  • Character: George Wah
Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.

The Falcon Strikes Back

The Falcon Strikes Back
6.4/10
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.

Chandler

Chandler
4.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1971
  • Character: Leo
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

The Scavengers

The Scavengers
5.7/10
This low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns a reformed smuggler (Vince Edwards of TV's Ben Casey) who finds his missing wife (Carol Ohmart) in Hong Kong.

Island of Lost Men

Island of Lost Men
5.9/10
A Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.

The Cobra Strikes

The Cobra Strikes
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 24/04/1948
  • Character: Hyder Ali
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

Half Past Midnight

Half Past Midnight
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/03/1948
  • Character: Lee Gow
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.

The Secrets of Wu Sin

The Secrets of Wu Sin
5.2/10
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.

Hong Kong Affair

Hong Kong Affair
5.9/10
An American businessman travels to Hong Kong to find out why his tea plantation isn't making money. When he gets there he discovers that his business partner has been growing something on the plantation, but it isn't tea. Complications ensue.

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