Jim Goddard directs Madonna, Sean Penn and Paul Freeman in this period caper romance where a missionary and conman team up to find some lost opium.

Another ultra hated release. Madonna looks beautiful in various interwar outfits. And that is all that truly matters. It bares many of the telltale scars of a runaway production: the jokes don’t land, the director never made movies again, the leads have zero chemistry, the leads attract all the IMDB trivia page gossip and the plot is incomprehensible. Madge doesn’t even sing the theme song!? But it filled an evening in Casa De Carroll.

5

Perfect Double Bill: High Road To China (1983)

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