Cast: Richard Loo

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Richard Loo. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


7.0

21 votes

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Nils Asther · Walter Connolly · Gavin Gordon

Synopsis The American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife. However, Robert postpones their wedding to rescue some orphans in an orphanage in Chapei section that is burning in the...

6.7

518 votes

6.7

518 votes

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Jennifer Jones · William Holden · Isobel Elsom · Richard Loo

Synopsis Jennifer Jones stars in this story about a widowed Eurasian doctor who falls in love with charming war reporter Mark Elliot (William Holden) in Hong Kong during the troubled time of the Korean War. Their relationship is plagued by bigotry...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Steel Helmet

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Gene Evans · William Chun · Steve Brodie · Robert Hutton

Synopsis During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers. The group stumbles upon a Buddhist temple where they decide...

6.6

597 votes

6.6

597 votes

The Quiet American

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Audie Murphy · Michael Redgrave · Claude Dauphin · Georgia Moll

Synopsis In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Michael Redgrave. They play out their widely different views on the prospects...

6.4

569 votes

6.4

569 votes

Across the Pacific

1942 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Sydney Greenstreet · Charles Halton

Synopsis Bogart plays a U.S. officer of artillery who is court martialled in disgrace (in 1941) and who leaves the country. He gets a job offer in central America with a stop off in Panama. While there he discovers Japanese plot...

6.3

680 votes

6.3

680 votes

Kung Fu (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ed Spielman · Richard Lang · Jerry Thorpe · Marc Daniels

Cast David Carradine · Keye Luke · Radames Pera · Philip Ahn

Synopsis Kung Fu (TV Series) (1972) follows Kwai Chang Caine, a half-Chinese, half-American Shaolin monk, who flees to the American Old West after avenging his mentor's death in China. Wanted for murder, Caine roams the frontier, seeking his long-lost brother while...

6.2

8K votes

6.2

8K votes

The Man With the Golden Gun

1974 · Movie · 125 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Roger Moore · Christopher Lee · Britt Ekland · Maud Adams

Synopsis Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him.

6.1

6K votes

6.1

6K votes

Kung Fu (TV)

1972 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Thorpe

Cast David Carradine · Barry Sullivan · Albert Salmi · Wayne Maunder

Synopsis After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

China Venture

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Barry Sullivan · Jocelyn Brando · Leo Gordon

Synopsis An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese guerilla.

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

China Sky

1945 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Randolph Scott · Ruth Warrick · Ellen Drew · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis In a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from the USA with new equipment ...and new wife Louise, who...

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

The Clay Pigeon

1949 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Bill Williams · Barbara Hale · Richard Quine · Richard Loo

Synopsis Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear...

5.8

200 votes

5.8

200 votes

Malaya

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Spencer Tracy · James Stewart · Sydney Greenstreet · Valentina Cortese

Synopsis Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by stealing it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help. While taking out the last load Royer is killed and Carnahan, wounded, must...

5.8

140 votes

5.8

140 votes

The Purple Heart

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Dana Andrews · Richard Conte · Farley Granger · Kevin O'Shea

Synopsis Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan - and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story!

5.7

89 votes

5.7

89 votes

Back to Bataan

1945 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Wayne · Anthony Quinn · Beulah Bondi · Fely Franquelli

Synopsis The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack....

5.6

310 votes

5.6

310 votes

The Fatal Hour

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Boris Karloff · Marjorie Reynolds · Grant Withers · Charles Trowbridge

Synopsis When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more...

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

Hell and High Water

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Widmark · Bella Darvi · Victor Francen · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer (Widmark) 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 submarine...

5.5

486 votes

5.5

486 votes

Doomed to Die

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Boris Karloff · Marjorie Reynolds · Grant Withers · William Stelling

Synopsis Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of...

5.5

26 votes

5.5

26 votes

China

1943 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Loretta Young · Alan Ladd · William Bendix · Philip Ahn

Synopsis Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks...

5.3

61 votes

5.3

61 votes

One More Train to Rob

1971 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast George Peppard · Diana Muldaur · John Vernon · France Nuyen

Synopsis In this western, a train robber is framed by a fellow gang member and sent to prison. The gang member betrayed him so that he could marry the robber's love. To get his revenge, the robber helps out a gang...

5.2

215 votes

5.2

215 votes