Gene Barry in "Hong Kong Confidential" (1958)

American intelligence agents gather in Washington, D.C. after an attempted Communist takeover of a small Middle Eastern country is put down by its leader, King Faid. The king's son, Prince Abdul, is abducted by Communist forces. U.S. intelligence officer for the Far East, Hong Kong Intelligence chief Dan Young (King Calder) assigns agent Casey Reed (Gene Barry) to the case. Casey's cover is a corrupt night club singer partnered with pianist Fay Wells (Beverly Tyler), who remains unaware of Casey's real identity. Soon after receiving the assignment, Casey is contacted at the club by Dennis Brooks, who offers him information on the kidnapping in exchange for money. However, Brooks is knifed to death.
Later, Dan identifies Brooks as a British spy connected with the notorious Elena Martine (Allison Hayes), who works in Macao with a gold smuggling syndicate. Dan then orders Casey to Macao, thus upsetting Fay when Casey reveals he must temporarily break up their act. Casey is accompanied to Macao by British agent John Blanchard (Michael Pate). After several days of searching for Elena, Casey asks for her at the Club Jikki and is taken to the club's owner-manager, Mr. Tan Chung (Philip Ahn).
Chung takes Casey to see Elena at her lush apartment, where Casey proposes that gold disguised as tourist trinkets could be smuggled into Communist Red China by way of Hong Kong, where he has a customs contact. After Elena and Chung approve of the plan, Casey is taken to Owen Howard (Noel Drayton), the syndicate head and liquor exporter. Howard agrees with Casey's plan, but orders him to transport the first shipment to insure its success personally. While awaiting preparation of the shipment, Howard arranges for Casey to sing at the Club Jikki as cover.
Later, Casey investigates Howard's dock warehouses. A short time later, Casey arrives in Hong Kong with Howard's gold, but John is grabbed by Howard's men. Dan orders Casey to return to Macao, where he finds Fay with Frank Paige (Ed Kemmer), an American defense worker, who has admired her for a long time. Chung summons Casey for a meeting where he finds Howard and John. John bolts and is killed by one of Howard's men.
As the deadline approaches, Howard convenes with Communist heads Yussef and Linov to complete their part to overthrow Faid. Later, Dan visits Fay at her hotel and is introduced to Frank. On a sudden hunch Dan re-examines newsreel footage and puts out an information search on Frank's identification.
Meanwhile, Elena summons Casey to the warehouse, where she takes him at gunpoint to Howard and his men. Howard brings out the young prince, unharmed, just as Fay telephones to reveal that she is also being held by Howard's men. Casey sabotages the phone and when Howard leaves the warehouse to investigate, Casey quickly overpowers Elena, shoots the guards and flees with Abdul to the hotel. There, Casey bursts into Fay's room, killing Chung, who is guarding her. Dan arrives with a backup of agents and arrests Frank, who Dan has discovered is a top Communist spy, planted early by the Russians in Faid's entourage. Dan then reveals that he informed Faid of the connection, preventing an agreement with the Russians. With the return of Abdul, Faid returns to his original approval of the American missile base, maintaining a fragile political stability in the Middle East.
A 1958 American Black & White low-budget Film-Noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn, produced by Robert E. Kent, screenplay by Orville H. Hampton, cinematography by Kenneth Peach, starring Gene Barry, Beverly Tyler, Allison Hayes, Ed Kemmer, Michael Pate, Rico Alaniz, Philip Ahn, King Calder, and Noel Drayton. Final film of Beverly Tyler.
Gene Barry made his mark on television as the star of such popular programs as "Bat Masterson" (NBC 1958-61) and "Burke’s Law" (ABC 1963-66).
Allison Hayes is sexy as can be, in an overtly trashy sort of way. She’s that rare actress who manages to look good in hot pants, even at her normal height. A West Virginian, she got her big break as a Miss America contestant. Later, Hayes becomes an American pop culture icon when she immortalized "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" (1958).
The narration, unlike most films that use the device to provide some set-up or let us in the hero’s thoughts, employs voiceover for purely economical reasons. The narrator fills in story gaps. His omniscient voice chimes in regularly to tie together scenes, and fill viewers in on aspects of the story that are not filmed as scenes.
Art director Bill Glascow decorated some iconic film noirs, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955) in particular, and would later earn an Oscar nomination for "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964).
Hong Kong Confidential is a small, fun, campy espionage thriller. It doesn’t take itself very seriously and doesn’t expect you to. Leonard Maltin described it as a "Harmless B film about Anglo-American agents rescuing a kidnapped Arabian prince.", while giving it 2.5 out of 4 stars.

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Love all the (City) Confidentials movies…Kansas City Confidential being my favorite…

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[@mikesaunders4775]

Gene Barry- Legend.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Welcome. My aunt was his waitress at a Detroit restaurant and said he was mean to the servers. Just sayin'.

[@joymahan2157]

Mr. Barry was a very good actor.

[@davidgreen449]

Or a cold Thursday

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Thanks for the visit!

[@fergaoneill5323]

Class film

[@ABUNKER97]

He was a great Bat Masterson. But Gene was no singer. 😂😂😂

[@ReRiderChi]

Good B fare on a cold wednesday

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Glad you enjoyed it! Welcome.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that Max Frankel was the property master.🙄

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[@darylcumming7119]

It's the Commies.

[@pressureworks]

23:35 Cigarette ???....Yes, yes it is.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Thanks for watching.

[@hypnophonz]

The movie was fairly interesting until I realized that a Caucasian actress had to play the role of a Chinese character. A stupid era for film making!

[@rivermoon6190]

No one cares. Get over yourself. The stupid era for film making is today’s woke nonsense, which only caters for likeminded, woke, racist people..

[@rivermoon6190]

What’s your opinion on b lack people playing Elizabeth I, Ariel - The little Mermaid, etc. etc?

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

How do you know her ancestors were from the Caucus Mountains?

[@davidholder3207]

Junk

[@jerroldfrank5869]

As in the boats in Hong King harbor?

[@41divad]

That singing performance was terrible The revelers outside the club were wooden puppets Why is the prince Caucasian? Why does the British guy speak American English?

[@josephgallardo2646]

As a 58 yr old I can't even watch new movies I think leap of faith was the last movie in theaters I saw because my date wanted to see it thanks to you tube tube and people like Donald and apps I one legged crippled on social security who worked 35 years as laborer and had to get a second to make ends meet doing home health I can watch all the film noir old black and white detective tv stories even though I'm going blind even if im going to sleep i think these movies were made for blind people and radio you no what's going on even with just the music and ever since they made digital local TV but during when the 70s and 80s your antenna could pick up small town in texas like big springs you could see old cops snd robbers and detective movies and old movies during the whole day and sometimes late night instead of watching the trash indoctrination and propaganda collective mind control cumbia and reverse racism movies and gene Barry no matter what he's dress sharp and hair in perfect place even though their trying to kill him and beat em up he's movies and TV shows are worth watching because there is always hot ladies and even though they are fully clothed you see their perfectly and hot bodies that put these actresses today to shame

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

So what exactly are you trying to say?🤔

[@josephgallardo2646]

And Allison Hayes didn't win the miss America Contest who in the hell did she run Against the 99 foot woman

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

Maybe it was someone who knew how to use punctuation.🦤

[@josephgallardo2646]

PS and the ladies don't stand a chance