Richard Loo
10 titles
Filmography
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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.
Betrayal from the East
(1945)A deadly game against a devilish enemy! When a Japanese espionage ring tempts an American ex-patriot to spy against the United States, the American agrees to become a double agent rather than acquiesce to the Betrayal from the East. Eddie Blake (Lee Tracy) travels to Panama with Peggy Harrison (Nancy Kelly) where the Japanese believe the two will help them with their plans to attack the Panama Canal. Even though Peggy is captured and tortured to death, Eddie manages to return to San Francisco with information about Japanese plans against the vital canal.

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.
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").

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 Bitter Tea of General Yen
(1932)After arriving in Shanghai in the middle of a revolution, an engaged American missionary is captured and slowly seduced by an infamous warlord.

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.