Home

Chinatown Capers (1974) [N/A]

Featuring:
Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Samuel Hui, Sylvia Chang

Written by:
Wei Lo

Directed by:
Wei Lo


Release Date:
April 4, 1974

Original Title:
小英雄大鬧唐人街

Alternate Titles:
Back Alley Princess in Chinatown
The Chinese Enforcers
Xiao ying xiong da nao Tang Ren jie
小英雄大闹唐人街
小英雄大鬧唐人街

Genres:
Action | Comedy

Production Companies:
Lo Wei Motion Picture Company
Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Production Countries:
Hong Kong

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 107

Overview from TheMovieDB

Ever the pair of do-gooding drifters, Embroidered Pillow and Chili Boy always come to the aid of Hong Kong's downtrodden and oppressed - even if it means traveling all the way to America! This time the two friends are off to San Francisco's Chinatown in search of a millionaire's missing daughter (Sylvia Chang, who also appears in Slaughter in San Francisco), who has vanished under shady circumstances. Typical Backalley Princess shtick ensues, including the duo's disastrous stint waiting tables in a Chinese restaurant and run-ins with the local street gangs. But just when things are looking hopeless, Sam and Polly find the lead they need, and the chase is on!

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Overview from Open Movies

Two friends are off to San Francisco's Chinatown in search of a millionaire's missing daughter who has vanished under shady circumstances.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Rankings and Honors

Chinatown Capers (1974) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.3/10

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Director:
Lo Wei

Director of Photography:
Cheung Yiu-Cho

Editor:
Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung

Original Music Composer:
Joseph Koo

Producer:
Raymond Chow

Writer:
Lo Wei

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.