Blood Alley
“Adventure on the dangerous waters of the Orient!”
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Genres
Adventure, Action, Drama
Studio
Batjac Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How Blood Alley performed
Budget
$2.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.2M
Gross Profit
$200,000
Return
1.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$254K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Capt. Tom Wilder
John Wayne
Capt. Tom Wilder
Cathy Grainger
Lauren Bacall
Cathy Grainger
Mr. Tso
Paul Fix
Mr. Tso
Susu
Joy Kim
Susu
Old Feng
Berry Kroeger
Old Feng
Big Han
Mike Mazurki
Big Han
Wei Ling
Anita Ekberg
Wei Ling
British Officer
Lowell Gilmore
British Officer
Communist Soldier
James Hong
Communist Soldier
Tack - Engineer
Henry Nakamura
Tack - Engineer
Cpl. Wang
Victor Sen Yung
Cpl. Wang
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