Shanghai Moon

Shanghai, 1931. Lady Sylvia Allington is the beautiful, young American-born wife of an aged British diplomat. She and her husband travel to Shanghai to persuade a notorious Chinese warlord, General Gong Fei, to donate a priceless antique jade bust to the British Museum. Lady Sylvia, a former carnival cooch dancer from Chicago, falls headlong into a fatal love affair with the mysterious Gong Fei, getting hooked on opium and antagonizing the general’s chief adviser, the elderly Doctor Wu, and his enigmatic mistress, Mah Li. A scandal involving a local bordello madame, Mrs. Carroll, and a cockney drug runner named Pug Talbot leads to tragedy.