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Produced by | Artur Brauner |
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Cinematography | Heinz Pehlke |
Edited by | Alfred Srp |
Music by | Georges Garvarentz |
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Distributed by | Constantin Film (West Germany) Warner Brothers (UK & US) |
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Running time | 93 minutes (Germany) |
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Language | English |
The Peking Medallion, also called The Corrupt Ones, is a 1967 crime film directed by James Hill, starring Elke Sommer, Robert Stack, Nancy Kwan and Werner Peters.[1] The film was a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany although it was shot in English. The films German-language title is Die Hölle von Macao .[2] It was made at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Hong Kong. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach and Ernst Schomer.
Stack called it "a derring-do, hidden treasure stinker" which he did for the money and because he admired Hill's Born Free.[3]