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Daughter of Shanghai Reviews

There is plenty of excitement, shootings and blood-curdling scenes. it's strong stuff to take.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2022

Anna May Wong really gets a rood role in Daughter of Shanghai.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2022

Exciting action-packed crime thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 22, 2022

[Anna May Wong] moves with cool detachment and grace through this wild yarn of smugglers, thinking her own thoughts, we suspect, and doing what the can to lend interest to a film that is sillier than it is exciting.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Daughter of Shanghai manages to shine up the melodramatic boiler-plate rather presentably.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Not only because of [Anna May Wong's] presence, but also because the suspense is blood-curdling at times, Daughter of Shanghai is a refreshing job of an all-too-familiar theme.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 11, 2020

Condense all the excitement of a multi-chapter superthrilling serial into 60 minutes running time and you get some idea of the entertainment character of Daughter of Shanghai.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Anna May Wong turns in a good performance and... Philip Ahn, makes an effective foil for her, as well as making an effective romance.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Miss Wong deserves better than this picture offers.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

While the pic makes no pretensions to be more than a programmer, it has several genuine assets.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

The means by which the leaders of this illicit traffic are discovered and finally brought to justice is shown in an exciting and absorbing film. Anna May Wong is splendid.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Anna May Wong handles this role as deftly and artistically as she has her many others.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

It is a knockdown melodrama with plenty of fights and murders and narrow escapes in which virtue rightly triumphs and the villains get their just deserts. It should please those who want action and gore and excitement.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn get the most from their roles, and Charles Bickford and J. Carrol Naish are in strong support.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

A thrilling romance based on the alien smuggling racket.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

Miss Wong makes an appealing heroine; and, despite the lack of plausibility, one's attention is held because of the constant danger to her.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2020

[Daughter of Shanghai] provides plenty of thrills.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2019

Good B actioner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2019

A tense, melodramatic atmosphere -- something between Limehouse Nights and I Cover the Waterfront -- is successfully maintained in Daughter of Shanghai.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2019

The noveity of this thriller's theme makes it stout entertainment for the melodrama fans.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2019

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