West of Shanghai
West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. It is based on the 1920 Porter Emerson Browne play The Bad Man. Three other films, all titled The Bad Man, are also based on the same play:
Plot
On a train bound for lawless northern China, businessman Gordon Creed (Ricardo Cortez) encounters acquaintance Myron Galt (Douglas Wood) and his attractive daughter Lola (Sheila Bromley). Galt is on his way to foreclose on a very promising oilfield built up by Jim Hallet (Gordon Oliver). Creed, on the other hand, wants to offer Hallet enough money to pay off his loan from Galt (for a tidy share of the oilfield).
More details
| author | Crane Wilbur |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | China |
| director | John Farrow |
| editor | Frank DeWar |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | chester gan coolie end estranged wife executed by firing squad face fatal accident fight firing squad kill knock out remote town their way warlord warlord era |
| musicBy | Heinz Eric Roemheld |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |