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Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 adventure comedy film directed by Jim Goddard and starring then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna. The screenplay was adapted by John Kohn and Robert Bentley from Tony Kenrick's 1978 novel Faraday's Flowers.
Aug 29, 1986 · Shanghai Surprise: Directed by Jim Goddard. With Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths. Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.
Shanghai Surprise (1986) - Original Trailer. In their only appearance together in a feature film, then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna team up for Jim Goddard’s bold adaptation of Tony Kenrick...
Shanghai Surprise. Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a sleazy, down-on-his-luck con man struggling to sell glow-in-the-dark neckties in Shanghai.
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- Crime, Drama
- PG-13
Walter Faraday, known as the Opium King and a supplier named Mei Gan battle over a valuable supply of the drug and Faraday is killed. A year later, missionary Gloria Tatlock comes in search of Faraday's legendary opium to relieve the pain of injured soldiers.
A romantic adventure-comedy set in one of the world's most mysterious, chaotic and often dangerous cities during the turbulent Thirties, "Shanghai Surprise" ...
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.