• 1952
  • 30m
China Smith

Summary Con artist and private eye China Smith works out of a bar in Singapore, roaming Asia in search of beautiful women (who like his tough style) and quick money. His nemeses are the friendly British Inspector and the scheming "empress." View more details

  • 1952
  • 30m

China Smith

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Dan Duryea Douglass Dumbrille Myrna Dell Clarence Lung

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7.4

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : May 31, 1952

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : San Francisco, California, USA

Production companies : National Telefilm Associates (NTA)

Summary Con artist and private eye China Smith works out of a bar in Singapore, roaming Asia in search of beautiful women (who like his tough style) and quick money. His nemeses are the friendly British Inspector and the scheming "empress." View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : May 31, 1952

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : San Francisco, California, USA

Production companies : National Telefilm Associates (NTA)

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China Smith (1952)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
The Bamboo Coffin
A Singapore rubber company hires China Smith to track down an escaped prisoner who once lead a gang of thieves dealing in stolen rubber. Smith determines that a manager of one of the company's rubber plantations may be involved in the thefts, but when the man is found shot in the back, he must cast his net wider to capture his quarry.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Celestial Pebbles
Hired to recover stolen jewels, Smith begins to suspect that the owner has withheld information about the theft.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
The Corpse with the Purple Ear
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Cruise to Colombo
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Curse of the River Gods
Episode 6 • Sep 15, 1952
Devil-in-the-Godown
Con artist/private eye, China Smith, investigates the murder of a newspaperman. The investigation leads him to a brotherhood of assassins and an arson-for-hire ring.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Dynasty of the Dead
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Espionage Express
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1951
High Sea
A Chinese gambler is accused of throwing a man off the deck of the SS Calebar. China Smith investigates and in the process he encounters a dancer and her knife throwing husband as well as a ship's officer with a secret.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
The Jade Trap
Episode 11 • May 13, 1953
Jungle Dragon
A young woman hires China Smith to find her fiance after he has been banished, by his family, to Malaya.
Episode 12 • May 13, 1953
The Kaprielian Cipher
As China Smith attempts to compile a dossier on fabulous Max Kaprielien, he discovers that the man has many sides and is surrounded by mystery.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Killer in the Kampong
A tin company hires China Smith to negotiate "tribute" with a local bandit leader who has raised his rates for not attacking company trucks eight-fold in recent months. When Smith penetrates the bandits' stronghold and learns that the outlaws have made no such demands. It's up to the beachcomber to discover where the money is disappearing.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Kris of Death
The British army hires China Smith to investigate rumors that one of their officers has excepted a hefty bribe from the Singapore underworld. Smith is accused of murder by the colonial forces when the colonel he suspects of accepting the bribe is found murdered and the crooks suspect China of stealing their $40,000 from the dead officer.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
Moon Flower
China Smith gives his friend Kwong money for his debts the man insists on giving Smith something in return. The adventurer is presented with Moon Flower, Kwong's lovely daughter, but Smith is at a loss of what to do with his gift.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1952
My Ship Has a Golden Keel
Smith takes a job for Leora, a new singer at Julio Frontera's night club. She wants her suitcases, left on a yacht she fled. Smith cons Frontera out of a dinner jacket and boards the yacht as a party guest. He's caught by the owner, Endicott,and a mercenary steward named Choy. He escapes without the suitcases, but Choy has agreed to help him if he comes back later that night. There are two betrayals and some waving of guns because the suitcases might contain gold. The show ends with Smith and a tippling piano player called "Cutty" singing a duet about wished-for fortunes--"A Ship with a Golden Keel."
Episode 17 • Dec 31, 1969
Pagoda in the Jungle
Episode 18 • Jan 14, 1953
The Phantom Sampan
Peaceable Smith mugs a sailor. He rifles the man's wallet, then gives it to Inspector Hobson as found property. The inspector tells him a cautionary tale of another Singapore rapscallion, a river pirate who drove Straits Settlement Rubber almost to ruin; the firm survived only because a businessman, Wu Chow, bought into it. But the elusive pirate found it wise to retire from Hobson's jurisdiction--Smith take note! Straits Settlement, though, wants Smith to deal with a new problem. The company needs Wu Chow's vote for "the S and M merger" but he's paralyzed by fear. Smith knows how "The Collector" frightens wealthy Chinese in Singapore, who pay to protect their relatives in Red China. But Wu Chow has no relatives there. Hobson's story of the pirate and his phantom sampan explain the situation. The Collector inadvertently dispenses justice. Hobson proves to be a very good shot.
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
Port of Thieves
Episode 20 • Mar 11, 1953
Shanghai Clipper
A man disappears from an airplane. Did he jump or was he pushed? Why did witnesses see nothing? Was he carrying a map of a fabulous oil discovery that is now missing? China Smith is hired to find answers.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
Straight Settlement
China Smith is accused of stealing a shipment of drugs that are necessary to save the life of a wealthy, dying, dying, Singapore man.
Episode 22 • Dec 31, 1969
The Tanaka Archive
Episode 23 • Dec 31, 1969
The Wondrous Funeral of Sergeant Ko
Episode 24 • Dec 31, 1969
Wreath of Poppies
China Smith investigates any deaths that all have in common the use of Tiger Tonic herbs.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1952
Year of the Phoenix
China Smith has been hired to find a man missing from his London family. Smith believes the missing man may be a rum soaked derelict that he has located.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
Zorana the Destroyer
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