James HongFilmography

Kung Fu Panda

Actors: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen

Synopsis: A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the countryside in this animated martial arts adventure featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jackie Chan. On the surface, Po (voice of Black) may look like just Read More

Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Film

Actors: Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, Stephen Gong, James Hong

Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Dong's documentary Hollywood Chinese pays homage to the first century of the American film industry, as specifically colored and influenced by the Chinese immigrants to whom Hollywood owes an inestimable debt. Dong touches on everyone from actress Anna May Wong, of Limehouse Blues Read More

Balls of Fury

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

Shanghai Kiss

Actors: Hayden Panettiere, Ken Leung, Kelly Hu, Byron Mann, James Hong, Joel David Moore

Synopsis: A struggling Los Angeles actor who has never fully grasped his Chinese roots takes an eye-opening journey to Shanghai after inheriting his grandmother's home in this romantic comedy starring X-Men: The Last Stand's Ken Leung and Heroes's cheerleader Hayden Panettiere. Liam (Leung) is an aspiring Read More

Exit 38

Actors: Martin Kove, James Hong, Dean George, Stevie Dean, Josie Harris

Synopsis: Two rival cops team up to defeat the powerful vampire that is holding their loved ones hostage in this horror-themed action thriller starring Martin Kove and James Hong. Mercer is a predator who loves to toy with his human prey. Lee Gray and Boyd Parker both dream of the day they can end Mercer's Read More

Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!

Actors: Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle

Synopsis: When Scooby, Shaggy and the rest of the gang head out to Himalayas in order to solve a frosty mystery, the surprise that awaits them at their snowbound destination may prove their biggest challenge to date. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures of Johnny Tao

Actors: Matt Twining, Matt Mullins, Chris Yen, Lindsay Parker, Kelly Perine

Synopsis: An ancient demon and his sugar-craving army of kung-fu warriors are set to take over the entire planet, leaving the only hope for mankind in the hands of a young boy and a beautiful Chinese warrior. The demons are coming, and in order to stop them young Johnny Dow must harness the hidden power of Read More

Coming Attractions

Totally Awesome

Actors: Ben Stein, Mikey Day, Dominique Swain, Chris Kattan, Trevor Heins

Synopsis: Chappelle's Show writer/producer/director Neal Brennan makes his feature directorial debut with this retro-minded comedy purported to have been produced in the 1980s but never released until 2006. As the Gunderson family sets out on a cross-country road trip to their new home, boyishly handsome Read More

American Fusion

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Esai Morales, Collin Chou, James Hong, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Synopsis: A woman stuck in middle age may yet find love if her mother can stay out of the way in this comedy from first-time director Frank Lin. Yvonne (Sylvia Chang) is a divorcee who is about to turn fifty and feels as if life is passing her by. Yvonne works for a throw-away newspaper where ad sales is Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Debt

Synopsis: ER costar Ming-Na is cast as Li Mei Nu, an immigrant woman in search of her missing sister Jiao Wu. The authorities are also interested in catching up with Li Wu, who has apparently abandoned two of her daughters in a squalid apartment. As the SVU detectives pursue the case, it becomes clear that Read More

Forbidden Warrior

Actors: Marie Matiko, Kang Sung, Karl Yune, Tony Amendola, Chris Coppola

Synopsis: Forbidden Warrior is structured loosely on a popular Asian myth. The story concerns Seki, an attractive woman who discovers that she can utilize an ancient book of spells in order to accomplish just about anything. She must master these spells before the book falls into the hands of those who mean Read More

Sucker Free City

Actors: Ben Crowley, Ken Leung, Anthony Mackie, Darris Love, Laura Allen, Malieek Straughter, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee makes the leap from the big screen to the small screen for this Showtime drama concerning the battle waged between black, white, an Asian gangs for control of the San Francisco streets. A modern-day melting pot that has become home to some of the vicious street-gangs Read More

Ghost Rock

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Worth, Jeff Fahey, Adrienne Barbeau

Synopsis: A boy grows to manhood with revenge on his mind in this martial arts-influenced Western. When John Slaughter (Michael Worth) was a boy, his family was killed by a gang of bloodthirsty outlaws. Twenty years on, Slaughter has become a sure hand with a gun and has learned the mysteries of Asian Read More

The Biggest Fan

Actors: Richard Moll, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Cindy Williams, Courtnee Draper, Chris Trousdale, Kaila Amariah

Synopsis: How would you react if the frontman for your favorite boy band came knocking on your door looking for a place to hide out? It may be more trouble than it's worth, as a star-stricken teen discovers in this comedy that drives home the age-old adage "be careful what you wish for." Chris Trousdale is Read More

The Idol

Actors: James Hong, Jalil Lespert, Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis: A French apartment building's natural order is disrupted by a young, melodramatic touring actress in The Idol, the third film from director Samantha Lang. Sarah (Leelee Sobieski) moves into an apartment that had been unoccupied for quite some time and begins tormenting her neighbors with frequent Read More

Charmed: Enter the Demon

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Dorian Gregory, Daniel Dae Kim, James Hong

Synopsis: In her efforts to be "one of the girls" -- that is, one of the benevolent Halliwell witches -- Paige (Rose McGowan) mixes up a potion that causes her to switch bodies with her half sister Phoebe (Alyssa Milano). In so doing, Paige acquires Phoebe's magical powers, and vice versa. Both girls must Read More

Alias: Color-Blind

Synopsis: Having learned that assassin Martin Shepard (John Hannah) is linked to her past and her mother's death, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) helps Shepard escape from a Bucharest mental asylum. Meanwhile, sinister SD-6 chieftain Sloane (Ron Rifkin) angrily vows to "make an example" of the as-yet-unknown mole Read More

The Art of War

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Donald Sutherland, Michael Biehn

Synopsis: A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn't exist now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the assassination of Wu (James Hong), China's ambassador to the United Nations, in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes Read More

Broken Vessels

Actors: Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, James Hong

Synopsis: Scott Ziehl made his directorial debut with this high-energy ambulance ride with a pair of paramedics careening through the Los Angeles night, with Antonio Calvache's camerawork capturing the social drama in a documentary-style depiction. In the vein of Leaving Las Vegas, the film was the top Read More

Scandalous Behavior

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rivalry and jealousy mix in this tale of two men who love and fight for the same woman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

G2: Mortal Conquest

Synopsis: A fierce warrior fends off some nasty villians he slew in a previous life, this time in the year 2003. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mulan

Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Lea Salonga, Eddie Murphy, B.D. Wong, Donny Osmond

Synopsis: Inspired by a familiar Chinese folk tale, this $90 million animated Disney drama follows the adventures of a young woman in ancient China. Character animator Tony Bancroft and 17-year Disney veteran Barry Cook (Captain EO, Tron, Trail Mix-Up) formed the directing team with production design by Read More

The Drew Carey Show: High Road to China

Synopsis: Making TV history as the first-ever American sitcom to film on location in mainland China, The Drew Carey Show takes this opportunity to dish up its most surrealistic episode to date. Pulling off the practical joke to end all practical jokes, Mimi (Kathy Kinney) manages to maroon a sleeping Drew Read More

Friends: The One with the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Synopsis: Pete (Jon Favreau) enters a grueling "ultimate fight," leading to a lot of hurt and a fateful decision by Monica (Courteney Cox). Ross' (David Schwimmer) new date Bonnie (Christine Taylor) once had a hair problem -- mainly, she didn't have any. Chandler's (Matthew Perry) new boss gives a whole new Read More

Murphy Brown: Desperate Times

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) desperately seeks an ally at the network when Kay (Lily Tomlin) presumptively decides to move the entire "FYI" staff to California. The situation prompts Murphy to join forces with Mr. Lansing's weaselly nephew Andrew (Paul Reubens), now ensconsed in a Buddhist monastery. Read More

Red Corner

Actors: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann, Peter Donat

Synopsis: The strong anti-China beliefs of actor and political activist Richard Gere were evident in this Hitchcockian thriller that sought to expose the civil and human rights abuses of that country's legal system. Gere stars as Jack Moore, counsel to a large media conglomerate seeking to open trade Read More

Bloodsport III

Actors: Daniel Bernhardt, James Hong, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, John Rhys-Davies, Amber van Lynt

Synopsis: In this action--stuffed martial arts outing, former thief and championship martial artist, Alex Cardo returns to avenge the death of his mentor Master Sun and to get back his master's " Kumite sword. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret Agent Club

Synopsis: In this family-oriented action comedy, the klutzy demeanor of a large but unassuming toy seller (wrestler Hulk Hogan) is but a facade for a highly skilled, globe-trotting secret agent working for a super-secret peacekeeping operation. His son Jeremy knows only that he doesn't get to see his dad Read More

Bloodsport 2: The Next Kumite

Actors: Daniel Bernhardt, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Don Gibb, Lori Lynn Dickerson, Philip Tan

Synopsis: Imprisoned after he is caught stealing an East Asian treasure, streetfighter Alex Cardo's martial arts skills are no match for the angry mobs who taunt him and the ruthless guard who mercilessly torments him. His only friend is Master Sun, the world's greatest practitioner of the Iron Hand Read More

South Beach Academy

Actors: Corey Feldman, James Hong, Al Lewis, Elizabeth Kaitan, Keith Colouris

Synopsis: Upon learning that an avaricious gambler is preparing to buy and raise their beloved school, a bunch of beach babes band together to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gladiator Cop

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, George Touliatos, Nicholas Pasco, Christopher Lee Clements, James Hong

Synopsis: Blending action with a touch of sword and sorcery, this drama centers on the attempts of a brave cop to stop the Game, a brutal series of sword fights in which the one who survives the match is hailed the winner. To stop the fights, the cop goes undercover as "The Gladiator" and tries to stop Read More

Tank Girl

Actors: Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Don Harvey

Synopsis: Based on a popular British cult comic book, this film is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the Read More

Operation Dumbo Drop

Actors: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: This old fashioned service comedy is suitable for the whole family. It is set in Vietnam during the war and chronicles the efforts of a small band of Green Berets as they endeavor to help out a beleaguered village located next to a major supply route for the Viet Cong. The leader, Capt. Sam Cahill Read More

Bad Company

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Susan Wooldridge, Laurence Fishburne, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Frank Langella, Mark Drewry, Michael Beach, Angus Deayton, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Laurence Fishburne and Ellen Barkin star in this complex tale of former C.I.A. agents who now specialize in freelance espionage. As the film opens, Nelson Crowe (Fishburne) is being interviewed for a position with the Grimes Organization, which focuses on industrial espionage. He is hired by Read More

Femme Fontaine: Killer Babe for the C.I.A.

Actors: Margot Hope, James Hong, Catherine Dao, David Shark, Arthur Roberts

Synopsis: Soft-core adventure ensues as a young assassin searches for her missing father in this satirical film. Drew Fontaine works for a company as a hitwoman. Her father, a spy, disappeared in South America around 1986. She has been trying to solve the mystery ever since. Her sleuthing takes her to an Read More

The Shadow

Actors: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: A crime fighter created in the 1930s and popularized in movies, pulp novels, and a radio show starring a young Orson Welles, The Shadow came back to life in 1994 in this slick, well-cast production. Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a murderous opium dealer reformed by a Tibetan mystic, who Read More

Operation Golden Phoenix

Actors: Jalal Merhi, Loren Avedon, James Hong, Karen Sheperd, Al Waxman

Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery

Wayne's World 2

Actors: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite headbangers from Aurora, Illinois, are back in this sequel to the 1992 hit comedy Wayne's World. The success of their TV show allows Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) to finally move out of their parents' homes, but now they have to figure out what to do Read More

Talons of the Eagle

Actors: Billy Blanks, Jalal Merhi, James Hong, Priscilla Barnes, Matthias Hues

Synopsis: In this Canadian martial-arts actioner, the DEA becomes desperate to bring dreaded druglord Mr. Li to justice and so teams up vice-detective Michael Reed with master-martial-artist Tyler Wilson to stop the crook. Before they can, they are taught the deadly "Eagle Claw" technique from Master Pan. Read More

Dragonfight

Actors: Paul Coufos

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, the controlling corporations of the world gain and lose power by competing with one another in one-on-one death matches. However when fighter Falchion (Paul Coufos) refuses to compete, he must run from the wrath of the big businessmen and his spurned opponent. ~ Iotis Read More

Merlin

Actors: Peter Phelps, Richard Lynch, James Hong

Synopsis: The direct-to-video Merlin brings the King Arthur legend up to date. The fun begins when a young Californian traces the ol' family tree directly back to Merlin the Magician. The twist: Merlin's descendant is a woman, played by Nadia Cameron. The good news is that the woman is endowed with special Read More

L.A. Goddess

Actors: Kathy Shower, David Heavener

Synopsis: A movie star (Wendy McDonald) and her body double (Kathy Shower) square off for the affections of an oblivious Hollywood executive (David Heavener). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Joker's Wild

Actors: Marty Rackham, Priscilla Barnes, Frank Gorshin, Dick Van Patten, James Hong

Synopsis: A Caribbean vacationer is mauled by sharks. Soon after he arrives on the beach of Miami. New York is his next stop. Vera Vin Rouge, Cinnamon, Spice and Paprika make his acquaintance. Their friend Johnny Zero, however, takes an immediate dislike to this man. The action is scripted in a 24 hour Read More

Mystery Date

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, B.D. Wong, Tony Rosato

Synopsis: In this black teen comedy, a young man is thrilled that his kindly older brother has arranged for him to date the bombshell next door. To further impress her, little brother takes his sibling's shiny sports car. If he had known that there were a pair of corpses in the trunk though, the youth may Read More

The Perfect Weapon

Actors: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mako, James Hong

Synopsis: Featuring plenty of high, hard kicks, and flailing furious fists, this martial arts actioner tells an exciting tale of vengeance as a tough American street fighter stalks the streets of L.A.'s Chinatown in search of the organized criminals responsible for his guardian's death. Movie newcomer Jeff Speakman Read More

Too Much Sun

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, Jim Haynie, Laura Ernst

Synopsis: In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will by having him add the following proviso: the tycoon's children will only inherit the fortune if one of them can produce an heir within one year after his death. If they fail Read More

Crime Lords

Synopsis: Two Los Angeles cops--an aging slob (Wayne Crawford) and his cocky young partner (Martin Hewitt)--are suspended from duty after inciting an incident at a chop shop. The two decide to track down the owner (James Hong), and follow him all the way to a Hong Kong crime ring. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

The Two Jakes

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Two Jakes is the much-delayed and rather convoluted sequel to the 1975 classic Chinatown. Released in 1990 after an abortive stab at shooting that began in the mid-'80s, the film was the subject of a creative feud between its principals, star Jack Nicholson, producer Robert Evans, and Read More

Caged Fury

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Erik Estrada, Richie Barathy, Roxanna Michaels, Paul L. Smith, James Hong

Synopsis: Prison chicks provide the basis for this exploitation film. The tale centers on two young women, one a naive, star-struck midwestern girl, and the other a savvy hitcher, who head for Tinseltown in search of stardom only to find themselves appearing in a soft-core porno flick. Unfortunately they Read More

Framed

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Kristin Scott Thomas, Todd Graff

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, Framed top-bills Jeff Goldblum as Wiley, a talented but somewhat naïve art forger. Wiley's big chance to score a con is cleverly foiled by another scam artist, Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas). Eager for revenge, Wiley seeks out Kate for a showdown; instead, the two become partners Read More

Tax Season

Synopsis: Allen Mills is a naive accountant from Cleveland who buys the Hollywood Tax Service from Lionel Goldberg before thoroughly investigating the various aspects of the business, let alone even seeing it. When he actually goes to take over his new business, he finds he got more than he bargained for. Read More

Last Flight Out

Synopsis: This tension-filled made-for-television drama is set a few hours before the Viet Cong took over Saigon in 1975 and chronicles the struggle of Americans and Vietnamese to be on board the last commercial flight out of the city. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shadowzone

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, researchers at an underground NASA research station are studying the effect of long periods of deep sleep on human beings. However, when the study participants begin dying, military man Captain Hickock (David Beecroft) is sent in to discover the cause. Once there, he discovers Read More

Tango & Cash

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

The Brotherhood of the Rose

Actors: Robert Mitchum, David Morse, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on a novel by David Morrell, the made-for-TV Brotherhood of the Rose is unabashedly old-fashioned escapist espionage fare. Peter Strauss and David Morse play polar-opposite CIA agents, code names Romulus and Remus. Their superior-and father figure-is crusty CIA official Robert Mitchum. Read More

The Karen Carpenter Story

Actors: Cynthia Gibb, Mitchell Anderson, Peter Michael Goetz, Michael McGuire, Lise Hilboldt

Synopsis: As the real-life Carpenters singing group is heard on the sound track, Cynthia Gibb stars as Karen Carpenter, with Mitchell Anderson costarring as her brother Richard. Karen's rise to the top is dutifully detailed, while Richard's brief flirtation with drug addiction is handled with discretion. Read More

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore, Harrison Liu, Anouk Aimée, James Pax

Synopsis: Having previously essayed the role of real-life Canadian physician/political activist Norman Bethune in a 1977 TV movie, Donald Sutherland returns to the role in the 1989 theatrical feature Bethune: The Making of a Hero. Over a period of several decades, Dr. Bethune grows increasingly disenchanted Read More

The Vineyard

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Veteran character actor James Hong wore two hats on The Vineyard as star and director. The scene is a remote island, dominated by a large, rambling vineyard. Mysterious Japanese vintner Hong gives his product an extra kick with a "special ingredient." The results: Immortality for Hong . . . and an Read More

Hot to Trot!

Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: After his mother's death, Fred P. Cheney (Bob Goldthwaith) must share the family financial business with his scheming stepfather Walter Sawyer (Dabney Coleman) in this misfired comedy. Fred also inherits Don, a talking horse who provides him with hot tips on the stock market. Don's voice is Read More

Vice Versa

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz, David Proval

Synopsis: A magical jeweled skull makes the wish of 11-year-old Charlie (Fred Savage) come true in this routine but entertaining situation comedy. Charlie wishes he can switch places with his father Marshall (Judge Reinhold), a shallow junior executive of a toy-manufacturing company. Marshall retains his Read More

The Jitters

Actors: Sal Viviano, James Hong, Frank Dietz

Synopsis: In this U.S./Japanese production filmed in Toronto but set in Los Angeles, a street gang murders a rich Chinatown merchant. He is brought back to life by a father-and-son team with a potion that turns him into a vampire. He then proceeds to lead his own gang of vampires against the street gang Read More

Leap of Faith

Actors: Anne Archer, Sam Neill

Synopsis: A young woman learns that she has a lethal, rare kind of cancer. This fact-based, heart-wrenching made-for-TV drama chronicles her struggle to cope with her own personal feelings and those of her family. She then begins looking for alternative ways to treat her disease while her husband deals with Read More

Hunter: Honorable Profession

Synopsis: Rookie cop Sandra Chin (Kimberly Delfin), one of Hunter's best students at the Police Academy, is seriously wounded in a Chinatown shootout. As Sandra lies in the hospital near death, she is accused of irresponsible use of her weapon. Hunter (Fred Dryer) puts his own career on the line to prove Read More

Deadlock

China Girl

Actors: James Russo, Sari Chang, Richard Panebianco, David Caruso, Russell Wong

Synopsis: Director Abel Ferrara liberally employs his blackjack intensity in this lunatic gang romance that comes across as a cross between Mean Streets and West Side Story. The New York City street gangs of Chinatown and Little Italy are rattling their sabers and they become drawn when a Chinese restaurant Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Forty

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) approaches his fortieth birthday with fear and loathing--mainly because he has just lost his lucky $2 bill. How will this catastrophe affect his investigation of arms-smuggling ring which moonlights as an extortion outfit? Also, will he be able to win a special surf-ski race? Read More

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Actors: Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: In this follow-up to Revenge of the Nerds the nerdy frat boys from Lambda Lambda Lambda go to Ft. Lauderdale to a national frat conference where they again must outwit the thick-tongued jock frat-boys who are also at the conference. This they can do. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Golden Child

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, J.L. Reate

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy followed up his Beverly Hills Cop success with this fantasy adventure that plops him right into the land of Ray Harryhausen and Indiana Jones. The plot revolves around a God-like youngster (J.L. Reate) known as a "golden child," who has been sent to Tibet to bring the gift of Read More

Big Trouble in Little China

Actors: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong

Synopsis: Playing in a manner that can be conservatively described as larger than life, Kurt Russell plays a macho truck driver who agrees to go to the San Francisco airport and pick up his friend's (Dennis Dun) fiancee (Suzee Pai, freshly arrived from China. Suddenly, a gang of Chinatown toughs kidnap the Read More

China Hand

Actors: David Soul

Synopsis: First telecast May 8, 1987, Harry's Hong Kong was the pilot film for an unsold TV series. The title character, played by David Soul, was a soldier of fortune at-large in the titular port city. The owner of an elaborate offshore casino, Harry Petros solves mysteries and straightens out other Read More

Hunter: Night of the Dragons

Synopsis: There's no day off for Hunter (Fred Dryer) or McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) after they witness a killing in Chinatown. What the two cops can't understand is why investigating detective Raymond Lau (Clyde Kusatsu) seems so reluctant to act upon the obvious evidence. It turns out that Lau's daughter has Read More

Blade in Hong Kong

Actors: Terry Lester, Keye Luke, Jean-Marie Hon, Ken Fagan

Synopsis: Terry Lester stars as Joe Blade in this unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Keye Luke. When Luke is killed and a wealthy man is kidnapped, Blade springs into action (Maybe he's a switch-Blade. Forget we said that.) Ellen Regan, Leslie Nielsen Read More

The A-Team: Mind Games

Synopsis: Face (Dirk Benedict) unexpectedly receives a pardon after "evidence" surfaces proving him innocent of the Vietnam bank robbery which landed the A-Team in prison. Hannibal (George Peppard) is convinced that there is something fishy about the pardon--especially since he knows darn well that Face was Read More

Ninja III: The Domination

Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, Sho Kosugi, David Chung, Tom Castronova, Dale Ishimoto

Synopsis: In this slick exploitation, martial arts fantasy from schlockmeisters Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, an evil ninja is killed off in a sandtrap on a golf course in Phoenix -- the police riddle him with bullets, foolishly thinking that is the end of it. But as he is dying, the ninja throws a smoke Read More

Missing in Action

Actors: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Lenore Kasdorf, James Hong, Pierrino Mascarino, David Tress

Synopsis: One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. Read More

Breathless

Actors: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John Ryan, William Tepper

Synopsis: A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse (Richard Gere), a fugitive wanted for the murder of a police officer. In the course of his flight from the law, he hitches up with a beautiful French college student (the Read More

China Rose

Synopsis: Filmed in Hong Kong, the made-for-TV China Rose stars George C. Scott as an American businessman. Scott arrives in Canton, China, trying to find out what has happened to his rebellious son, who was swept up in China's "cultural revolution". Ali MacGraw plays a freewheeling guide who falls in love Read More

The A-Team: The Maltese Cow

Synopsis: The Golden Pagoda, a Chinese restaurant owned by Wan Chu (James Hong) and sponsored by the A-Team, has been targeted for harassment by a local criminal gang. Things take a sinister turn when it is revealed that Tommy Chen (Peter Kwong), the boyfriend of Wan Chu's daughter Sun (Lydia Lei), is Read More

Yes, Giorgio

Actors: Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, James Hong

Synopsis: When touring Italian opera star Giorgio Fini (Luciano Pavarotti in his screen debut) mysteriously loses his voice before a performance in Boston, he goes to see throat specialist Dr. Pamela Taylor (Kathryn Harrold), and the two fall madly in love. This film features a number of songs, including Read More

Blade Runner

Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition, but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film gained a significant cult following that increased Read More

Marco Polo

Actors: Ken Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary globetrotter Marco Polo. Newcomer Ken Marshall played the title character, a 14th century Venetian explorer who, among other accomplishments, firmly established the "silk route" Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Miz Tisdale on the Lam

Synopsis: A postal investigator swoops down on Hazzard County to find out who is running a phony property mail scams. Of course, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is the guilty party, but he manages to pin the blame on innocent postmistress Miz Tisdale (Nedra Volz). The old lady hides from the authorities at the Read More

When Hell Was in Session

Actors: Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Made for television, When Hell Was in Session is the true story of Navy commander Jonathan Denton Jr., here played by Hal Holbrook. Shot down during a bombing mission over Vietnam in 1965, Denton endured nearly eight horrendous years as a POW. The plot details Denton's efforts to organize a Read More

Goodbye Paradise

Actors: James Hong

True Confessions

Actors: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Cyril Cusack, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators wear clerical collars. In, 1948 Los Angeles Read More

So Fine

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Trying to recreate the screwball comedy success of his collaborations with Peter Bogdanovitch, actor Ryan O'Neal headlined this sporadically funny mixture of light farce and social satire. O'Neal stars as Bobby, an intellectual English professor who leaves his job when his father Jack (Jack Read More

Airplane!

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear Read More

The In-Laws

Actors: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser, Arlene Golonka

Synopsis: Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). They are practically relatives already, the wedding is so near. Certainly, Sheldon already despises Vince as if he were already a Read More

Taxi: The Great Race

Actors: Julie Payne, Kres Mersky, Scott Brady, James Hong, Jean Owens Hayworth

Synopsis: The garage becomes a unofficial gambling emporium when the cabbies place bets as to whether Alex (Judd Hirsch) can bring in more fare money than Louie (Danny DeVito) during a single night, or vice versa. Elaine (Marilu Henner) is particularly anxious over the outcome of this wager, especially Read More

Mandrake

Actors: Anthony Herrera

Synopsis: This feature-length pilot for an unsold TV series was based on Mandrake the Magician, the long-running comic strip created by Lee Falk and Phil Davis in 1934. Raised in the Himalayas, the orphaned Mandrake (played as a child by David Hollander, and as an adult by Anthony Herrera) is taught the Read More

Teen Lust

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirsten Baker, Leslie Cederquist, Perry Lang

Synopsis: Kirsten Baker and Leslie Cedarquist are the Girls Next Door in this buoyant sexploitationer. The ladies move in bag and baggage into a sleepy suburban community. Before long, every husband in the vicinity has fallen for their charms. A few trousers have fallen as well, which is why the film Read More

The Last of the Good Guys

Actors: Robert Culp, Dennis Dugan, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: If it hadn't been a TV movie, Last of the Good Guys might have made a good episode of Car 54 Where Are You? The main good guy is rookie cop Dennis Dugan, who is assigned to take over for an ailing veteran police officer. When the replaced officer dies, Dugan realizes that the man's widow will Read More

Dr. Scorpion

Synopsis: Dr. Scorpion (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a megalomaniac genius, who plans to rule the world with or without the world's cooperation. His chief nemesis is marine biologist Jonathan Shackleford (Nick Mancuso), an ex-spy better known as "Shack". Shack was also the title of the TV series for which the Read More

My Husband is Missing

Synopsis: As is customary, Sally Struthers cries buckets in My Husband is Missing (one gets the feeling that she cries buckets at card tricks). Struthers plays the wife of an MIA who is permitted to visit North Vietnam in search of her husband. She meets Canadian journalist Tony Musante, who's anxious to Read More

Go Tell the Spartans

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Joe Unger

Synopsis: Go Tell the Spartans is set in Vietnam during that period in which American troops were euphemistically termed "advisors". Reluctantly dispensing much of that advice is veteran American major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster). Though he knows what works and what doesn't on the battlefield, Barker is Read More

The World's Greatest Lover

Actors: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Carl Ballantine

Synopsis: After writing, directing, and starring in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Gene Wilder added the producer's hat to his three-headed beast in The World's Greatest Lover. Wilder plays Rudy Valentine, a Milwaukee baker who enters a talent search in the Hollywood of the 1920s Read More

Panic in Echo Park

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a doctor feverishly works to save a city from a potentially devastating epidemic. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bethune

Synopsis: This is the true story of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who tended to the needs of Mao Tse Tung's army during the communist takeover of China. Bethune's motives, most of which he preferred to keep to himself, have intrigued many filmmakers of humanistic or liberal inclinations. This Read More

The Rockford Files: The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit

Synopsis: Celebrity psychic Roman Clementi (Robert Webber) gets Jim Rockford (James Garner) in plenty of hot water when he tells his followers that the detective has "inside information" concerning two missing persons, Alison Currie and Rick Richards. With public opinion against him and the police breathing Read More

No Deposit, No Return

Actors: David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Feldon

Synopsis: In this Disney comedy, a pair of spoiled kids, bored by their filthy rich grandfather, decide they'd rather be with their mom who is in Hong Kong. In order to get her attention, they engineer their own kidnapping. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 1

Synopsis: The two-part opener of Streets of San Francisco's fifth and final season marks a major transition, as SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) loses his longtime partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) and gains a new one, athletic young inspector Dan Robbins (Richard Hatch). But before Read More

Bound for Glory

Actors: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Hal Ashby's biopic portrays a few pivotal years in the life of the celebrated folk singer and social activist. In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter Read More

All in the Family: Edith Breaks Out

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, James Hong

Synopsis: Edith is happy with her volunteer job at the Sunshine Nursing Home -- too happy, as far as Archie is concerned. Feeling neglected, Archie pulls out the old "woman's place is in the home" routine and demands that Edith give up her job. This time, however, Edith refuses to say "How high?" when Read More

Chinatown

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman

Synopsis: "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski Read More

The Missiles of October

Actors: William Devane

Synopsis: The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is the subject of this made-for-TV effort. Starring William Devane as President John Kennedy, the movie explores the events of the 13-day period when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dynamite Brothers

Synopsis: Schlockmeister supreme Al Adamson taps the martial-arts market in The Dynamite Brothers. The unrelated "siblings" of the title are played by Alan Tang and Timothy Brown. One is a Hong Kong immigrant with kung-fu savvy, the other a street-smart Los Angeles homeboy. They join forces to squelch the Read More

Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders

Synopsis: In this interesting murder mystery a Chinese detective from the 7th century must solve a strange case involving a trio of wives, an amputee, and a deceased monk. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: All Honorable Men

Synopsis: All the experts have declared that it is impossible to rob a safety-deposit vault surrounded by a sophisticated, high-tech alarm system--but that's just what happens. Clearly the heist was the work of a well-trained team, and the cops are able to arrest one of the suspects almost immediately. Read More

Sunshine

Synopsis: After a young mother is diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, she begins writing a journal containing her most heartfelt thoughts. It is to be her legacy to her beloved husband and daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pueblo

Actors: Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Pueblo is a 2-hour videotaped special, originally telecast March 29, 1973 on ABC Theatre. Hal Holbrook stars as commander Lloyd M. Bucher, who in January of 1968 was forced to surrender the USS Pueblo to North Korea. The drama is staged in an impressionistic manner, with dramatized Read More

Kung Fu

Actors: David Carradine, Barry Sullivan, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A Chinese/American priest, Caine must flee to the United States after he is forced to kill a royal nephew. He wanders the American West of the 1860s, keeping his cool until Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Under the influence of sodium pentathol (the result of a visit to the dentist), Howard exhibits are heretofore unsuspected poetic side to his personality. Captivated by the "new" Howard, Carol instantly falls in love with him. Though Bob is convinced that this romance is a mistake, Emily tries to Read More

The Carey Treatment

Actors: Robie Porter, Melissa Torme-March, James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey, Elizabeth Allen

Synopsis: Blake Edwards directed this murder mystery set against the backdrop of a busy metropolitan hospital. Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who has signed on to work with Dr. J.D. Randall (Dan O'Herlihy) at a prominent hospital in Boston. When Randall's daughter Karen (Melissa Read More

All in the Family: Archie Gives Blood

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Mike Evans

Synopsis: Archie balks at the notion of donating blood at the local Red Cross. When Mike accuses him of being chicken, Archie protests that he doesn't want to give up a precious pint of his own "pure" blood unless he can be certain that the recipient will not be a member of a minority group. Archie's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Merchant

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by Harold Livingston, "The Merchant" guest-stars George Sanders in one of his final acting roles, as illegal arms dealer Armand Andressarian. To prevent Andressarian from completing an arrangement to sale guns to unfriendly guerilla groups in Africa and the middle East, the IMF swings into Read More

A Tattered Web

Synopsis: A Tattered Web starts out at a high level of tension which seldom flags during its lean 74 minutes. Lloyd Bridges stars as a police detective who finds out that his son-in-law Frank Converse is cheating on his daughter Sallie Shockley. Catching up with the "other woman," Bridges accidentally kills Read More

The Forgotten Man

Synopsis: The Forgotten Man is an updated variation on the "Enoch Arden" theme. Dennis Weaver stars as Lieutenant Joe Hardy, who when captured by the Vietcong is reported killed. Upon his release, Hardy returns to his hometown, only to discover that life has gone on without him. His wife (Anne Francis) has Read More

The Hawaiians

Actors: Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Tina Chen, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener. Charlton Heston is top-billed as a sailor who returns to his Hawaiian homestead, only to learn that his grandfather's fortune has been bestowed upon his hated cousin Alec McCowan Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Actors: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff

Synopsis: The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American missile defense system. Colossus' technicians do not count on the computer developing an intelligence of its own. Communicating with its Russian Read More

Family Affair: Number One Boy

Synopsis: Benson Fong makes a return appearance to Family Affair, this time in the role of Ng Ho, Bill's houseboy during a business trip to Hong Kong. Impressed by Ng Ho's courtesy and efficiency, Bill (Brian Keith) invites the man to visit him in New York. Ng Ho voluntarily takes on so many household Read More

The Bamboo Saucer

Actors: Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Bob Hastings, Vincent Beck

Synopsis: A veteran cast gives the 1968 cheapie The Bamboo Saucer what little credibility it has. In his last role, Dan Duryea plays the head man of an expeditionary force in search of a missing UFO. Since the craft was last sighted in the mountains of Red China, the search takes on political significance. Duryea Read More

Family Affair: The Baby Sitters

Synopsis: Cissy (Kathy Garver) has been assigned to babysit the twins while Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) is in Hong Kong on business and Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) is likewise occupied elsewhere. But when Cissy has a chance to go to a concert, she prevails upon her friend Sharon (Sherry Alberoni) to look Read More

The Sand Pebbles

Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane

Synopsis: Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo, is ordered to patrol the Yangtze Read More

Destination Inner Space

Actors: Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill, Mike Road

Synopsis: An underwater research station headed by Dr LaSatier (Gary Merrill) finds evidence of a very fast-moving undersea craft, and request assistance from the United States Navy. which sends its top submarine officer, Commander Wayne (Scott Brady). He is able to confirm that there's no submarine, on our Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper

Synopsis: Tony (Larry Hagman) angrily orders Jeannie (Barbara Eden) to stop using magic--completely, no matter what the provocation. Alas, a few moments later Tony is kidnapped by Communist spies and whisked off to a torture chamber, where his captors hope to extract certain top secrets from him. Jeannie Read More

One Spy Too Many

Actors: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: This feature-length espionage thriller is an expanded version of an episode of the TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. entitled "The Alexander the Great Affair." Mr. Alexander (Rip Torn) is a power-hungry multi-millionaire who wants to take over the world from his compound in Greece, with Alexander Read More

The Fugitive: End of the Line

Synopsis: Posing as "Bob Mossman", Kimble (David Janssen) is forced to steal a wallet to pay his train fare. Unfortunately for him, the train is a shuttle to and from a local prison, and is chock full of guards and newly released prisoners. This makes things difficult for Kimble when attempts to repay the Read More

The Satan Bug

Actors: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Adapted from an Alistair MacLean novel, The Satan Bug is one of the best efforts in the "deadly virus at large" genre. Insane scientist Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart) steals several vials containing a lethal germ culture from a government lab. Hoffman has been unhinged by the notion of the Read More

The Outer Limits: One Hundred Days of the Dragon

Synopsis: The second volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series focuses on an experimental drug which allows a con artist to make himself the doppelganger of the secretly-murdered U.S. President. After commandeering the Oval Office, the impostor begins Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Floating Stones

Synopsis: Juli Eng (Irene Tsu) travels from San Francisco to Hong Kong to claim the cache of precious diamonds left to her by her grandfather. Alas, the gems are missing, so Juli returns to America and asks Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to help her track them down. Eventually, the identity of the thief, Ralph Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Coming of the Tiger

Synopsis: Paladin's friend Takura (Teru Shimada) informs the gunslinger that there is a plan afoot to conquer the United States.The plan has been cooked up by a Japanese high priest (James Hong) and a ferocious Samurai warrior (Fuji), who intend to set up an insidious Japanese spy ring throughout the West Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Weary Watchdog

Synopsis: Janet Brent (Mala Powers), a close friend of Perry Mason's secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale), is being blackmailed by Edward Franklin (John Dall), an employee of Janet's husband Alton (Wesley Addy). Franklin has in his possession some faked photos that could ruin the Brents' marriage and Read More

Flower Drum Song

Actors: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki, Benson Fong

Synopsis: The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the only Rogers and Hammerstein film to lose money at the box office. It looks far better now than it did back in 1961, if only because of the paucity of musical films in the Read More

One Step Beyond: House of the Dead

Synopsis: On the night before he is to leave Hong Kong for his native England, Lt. Harry Fraser (Mario Alcalde) proposes to the beautiful Mai Ling (Laya Raki). The next day, Fraser returns to the girl's home, only to find out that she has completely disappeared. After a frantic search, Fraser is approached Read More

Blood and Steel

Actors: John Lupton, James Edwards, Brett Halsey, John Brinkley, Allen Jung

Synopsis: In this wartime adventure, four courageous Seabees infiltrate a Japanese-controlled island to find a place to build an air-strip. A beautiful jungle lass helps them navigate the dense forest and blow up an enemy transmitter. The flight back to their boat is not without casualties. ~ Sandra Read More

Dragnet: The Big Green Monkey

Synopsis: Several robberies have occurred in LA's Chinatown district. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have but one clue to go on: a small, green jade monkey. Featured in the supporting cast is prolific Asian-American character actor James Hong, who went on to sizeable roles in such Read More

China Gate

Actors: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat "King" Cole, Lee Van Cleef, George Givot, Warren Hsieh, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal with Vietnam. The film concerns the battle between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, through the efforts of a small band of soldiers to locate and destroy a hidden communist Read More

The New Adventures of Charlie Chan [TV Series]

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Actors: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson

Synopsis: Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general. She falls in love with American news correspondent Mark Elliot (William Holden), who Read More