Richard Loo
11 titles
Filmography
11 results

Confessions of an Opium Eater
(1962)In early 20th-century Chinatown, an adventurer gets embroiled in an underworld dispute while trying to rescue women from trafficking.

Women in the Night
(1948)A group of women, held as sex slaves in a German officer's club during World War II, do what they can to destroy the plans for a cosmic death ray.

First Yank into Tokyo
(1945)An American pilot who was raised in Japan has his face surgically altered to go undercover on a daring mission as the The First Yank into Tokyo. World War II. With the United States and Japan locked in a grueling war, and the fate of the world depending on which country emerges victorious, the U.S. sends a man behind enemy lines to retrieve secrets to a new weapon that could change the course of the war. Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal) was raised in Japan, knows the culture, speaks the language like a native... and since the death of his girlfriend has nothing left to lose. Ross volunteers to have his face altered to appear Japanese for a vital, one-way mission. In Tokyo, Ross finds his girlfriend alive and held as a prisoner, but the lives of millions depend on the successful completion of his suicidal assignment.
I Was an American Spy
(1951)Claire Phillips is an American nightclub singer working in Singapore in the early 1940s, when the Japanese attack and take over the island country. Now trapped, and widowed since her husband was killed in the Bataan Death March, Claire agrees to aid an American secret agent in fighting the occupying Japanese troops. She is captured by the enemy, tortured, and sentenced to be shot, but is rescued at the last minute by her American contact. This war-time tale is based on the true story of Americas own "Mata Hari" of the South Pacific, and stars Ann Dvorak ("Scarface," "Flame of Barbary Coast") as Claire Phillips, Gene Evans ("Operation Petticoat," "Shock Corridor") as the American secret agent, and Douglas Kennedy ("Dark Passage," "The Fastest Guitar Alive"), Philip Ahn (TVs "Kung Fu," "Thoroughly Modern Millie") and Richard Loo ("The Man With the Golden Gun," "The Sand Pebbles").
Daughter of the Tong
(1939)
The Steel Helmet
(1951)Marking Samuel Fuller's official arrival as a mighty cinematic force, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of the director's most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war.

Seven Were Saved
(1947)When a military transport plane carrying an assortment of passengers crashes into the South China Sea, the survivors must await rescue in a life raft.

State Department: File 649
(1949)A rookie U.S. official is sent to remote northern China where he must match wits with a sinister warlord with plans to seize control of the province.

China Sky
(1945)Randolph Scott and Anthony Quinn star in this adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's novel about the people of a small village trapped between warring armies under the China Sky. China. World War II. Two American doctors, Dr. Gray Thompson (Randolph Scott--Ride the High Country) and Dr. Sara Durand (Ruth Warrick), have a close working relationship at their village hospital. But they do not realize how close they have become until Thompson returns with his new bride, Louise (Ellen Drew). Now as the war overtakes this small town, Thompson must balance his dedication to the local people, his conviction to aid everyone--even wounded Japanese soldiers--and his wife's inability to adapt to life in rural China.

The Man with the Golden Gun
(1974)After his life is threatened, Roger Moore as 007 is lured into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a million-dollar killer (Christopher Lee).

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955)This timeless romance stars Jennifer Jones and William Holden as a Eurasian doctor and an American journalist who fall in love, despite social taboos and other powerful challenges.