Hong Kong and Little Joe
A world-weary gambling woman in the far east is hoping that her sea captain boyfriend will marry her and take her to a romantic island home, yet he always comes up short. When the reds kidnap him, she secures the ransom money by c...
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"This TV pilot starring Barbara Stanwyck was shown on her short-lived eponymous TV series, a fun showcase for her "bad girl" talents. Set in Hong Kong and Macao, it demonstrates how to make an international subject show on shoestring. She plays Little Joe (a/k/a Josephine Little) a notorious American who is always up to no good on the wrong side of the law in the Far East. Anna May Wong plays her sidekick A-Hsing, quite delightful delivering wisecracks in deadpan fashion, trying to keep Barb from getting arrested or worse. In the brief 1/2 hour segment, Barb gets into lots of troubl..."
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A world-weary gambling woman in the far east is hoping that her sea captain boyfriend will marry her and take her to a romantic island home, yet he always comes up short. When the reds kidnap him, she secures the ransom money by c...