Movies: Richard Loo

  • 1958
    The Quiet American

    The Quiet American (1958)

    The Quiet American

    5.81958HD

    Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their ene...

    The Quiet American
  • 1949
    Malaya

    Malaya (1949)

    Malaya

    6.51949HD

    After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing ...

    Malaya
  • 1944
    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    6.31944HD

    As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left b...

    The Story of Dr. Wassell
  • 1943
    Behind the Rising Sun

    Behind the Rising Sun (1943)

    Behind the Rising Sun

    5.71943HD

    A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis....

    Behind the Rising Sun
  • 1954
    Living It Up

    Living It Up (1954)

    Living It Up

    6.41954HD

    Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning...

    Living It Up
  • 1932
    The Bitter Tea of General Yen

    The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)

    The Bitter Tea of General Yen

    6.21932HD

    An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai....

    The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  • 1955
    Soldier of Fortune

    Soldier of Fortune (1955)

    Soldier of Fortune

    5.91955HD

    An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the...

    Soldier of Fortune
  • 1944
    The Purple Heart

    The Purple Heart (1944)

    The Purple Heart

    61944HD

    This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals....

    The Purple Heart
  • 1936
    Stowaway

    Stowaway (1936)

    Stowaway

    6.71936HD

    Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family....

    Stowaway
  • 1937
    The Soldier and the Lady

    The Soldier and the Lady (1937)

    The Soldier and the Lady

    6.51937HD

    In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, w...

    The Soldier and the Lady
  • 1943
    The Falcon Strikes Back

    The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

    The Falcon Strikes Back

    5.61943HD

    The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation....

    The Falcon Strikes Back
  • 1954
    Hell and High Water

    Hell and High Water (1954)

    Hell and High Water

    6.11954HD

    A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with s...

    Hell and High Water
  • 1951
    The Steel Helmet

    The Steel Helmet (1951)

    The Steel Helmet

    71951HD

    A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War....

    The Steel Helmet
  • 1942
    Across the Pacific

    Across the Pacific (1942)

    Across the Pacific

    6.61942HD

    Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for...

    Across the Pacific
  • 1947
    Web of Danger

    Web of Danger (1947)

    Web of Danger

    4.81947HD

    Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are ...

    Web of Danger
  • 1956
    The Conqueror

    The Conqueror (1956)

    The Conqueror

    3.41956HD

    Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan....

    The Conqueror
  • 1954
    The Shanghai Story

    The Shanghai Story (1954)

    The Shanghai Story

    4.81954HD

    Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them....

    The Shanghai Story
  • 1939
    Mr. Wong in Chinatown

    Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

    Mr. Wong in Chinatown

    5.21939HD

    A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military miss...

    Mr. Wong in Chinatown
  • 1945
    China Sky

    China Sky (1945)

    China Sky

    5.51945HD

    During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise beco...

    China Sky
  • 1943
    Destroyer

    Destroyer (1943)

    Destroyer

    6.61943HD

    Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank...

    Destroyer