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The New Adventures of China Smith
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The Sign of the Scorpion

  • Episode aired 1954
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While visiting Hong Kong, China Smith is hired by a woman to secretly serve as a bodyguard for her husband, a retired British naval officer. A crooked astrologer has warned her that her husb... Read allWhile visiting Hong Kong, China Smith is hired by a woman to secretly serve as a bodyguard for her husband, a retired British naval officer. A crooked astrologer has warned her that her husband will die within the week and he has begun to receive threatening letters. When Command... Read allWhile visiting Hong Kong, China Smith is hired by a woman to secretly serve as a bodyguard for her husband, a retired British naval officer. A crooked astrologer has warned her that her husband will die within the week and he has begun to receive threatening letters. When Commander Tilson is found dead in his aquarium, Smith is accused of drowning the old man

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    • Gene Fowler Jr.
  • Writer
    • Robert C. Dennis
  • Stars
    • Dan Duryea
    • Priscilla Pointer
    • Keye Luke
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      • Gene Fowler Jr.
    • Writer
      • Robert C. Dennis
    • Stars
      • Dan Duryea
      • Priscilla Pointer
      • Keye Luke
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    Dan Duryea
    Dan Duryea
    • China Smith
    Priscilla Pointer
    Priscilla Pointer
    • Carla Tilson
    Keye Luke
    Keye Luke
    • Aban
    Richard Glyer
    • Commodore Tilson
    Linda Sutherland
    • Mrs. Tilson
    Joe Miksak
    • Kelly
    Edgar Iverson
    • Officer Strangway
    • Director
      • Gene Fowler Jr.
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      China Smith: [narrating] There's a saying among the Chinese that the past is as clear as a mirror and the future is dark as lacquer. Still, there are those who will try to predict and those who will be frightened by the prediction. The commodore's wife, for one. And I'm willing to set her fears to the Commodore's life at rest - for a small fee, of course. I be China Smith - a man's whose future is completely unpredictable.

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    • Release date
      • 1954 (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • New Albion Studios, San Francisco, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Bernard Prockter Productions
      • Don Flagg Productions
      • National Telefilm Associates (NTA)
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