[Anna May Wong] moves with cool detachment and grace through this wild yarn of smugglers, thinking her own thoughts, we suspect, and doing what the can to lend interest to a film that is sillier than it is exciting.

| Dec 11, 2020

Not only because of [Anna May Wong's] presence, but also because the suspense is blood-curdling at times, Daughter of Shanghai is a refreshing job of an all-too-familiar theme.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 11, 2020

While the pic makes no pretensions to be more than a programmer, it has several genuine assets.

| Dec 11, 2020

The means by which the leaders of this illicit traffic are discovered and finally brought to justice is shown in an exciting and absorbing film. Anna May Wong is splendid.

| Dec 11, 2020

Anna May Wong handles this role as deftly and artistically as she has her many others.

| Dec 11, 2020

[Daughter of Shanghai] provides plenty of thrills.

| Mar 17, 2019

A tense, melodramatic atmosphere -- something between Limehouse Nights and I Cover the Waterfront -- is successfully maintained in Daughter of Shanghai.

| Mar 17, 2019