"You're a lying Shanghai dame…"
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Social & External
The people behind it
Ruth Roman
Rita King
Edmond O'Brien
Daniel Maynard
Richard Jaeckel
'Knuckles' Greer
Barry Kelley
Ricki Dolmine
Whit Bissell
Paul Grant
Basil Ruysdael
Rev. Hollingsworth
Marvin Miller
Colonel Zorek
Yvette Duguay
Leah De Verno
Paul Picerni
Emilio De Verno
Isabel Randolph
Mrs. Merryweather
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