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Chu-Chin-Chow (1934)
Director: Walter Forde
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From Time Out Film Guide
This jolly celebration of Oriental brutality confounds all expectations of restraint and respectability in pre-war British cinema. Blood-curdling murders, scantily-clad slave-girls, and an atmosphere of delicious terror induced by the ever-present threat of being boiled in oil, fed to the dogs or cut into tiny pieces by the magnetically vindictive villain, come as something of a shock even though they're all part of an unabashedly English pantomime tradition. Filmed with verve and audacity and a lavishness completely untypical of the small Gainsborough Studios, the result is a gutsy melodramatic piece of popular cinema.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Walter Forde
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: George Robey, Fritz Kortner, Anna May Wong, John Garrick, Pearl Argyle, Francis L Sullivan full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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