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Tai-Pan

Year:
Duration:
127 min
Genres:
Adventure
IMDB rate:
5.4
Director:
Daryl Duke
Awards:
2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1986-11-07
Filming Locations: China
Earnings
Budget: $25,000,000
Opening Weekend: $1,863,469 (USA) (9 November 1986)
Gross: $3,986,171 (USA) (7 December 1986)
Cast
Actor
Character
Bryan Brown
Dirk Struan
Joan Chen
May-May
John Stanton
Tyler Brock
Tim Guinee
Culum Struan
Bill Leadbitter
Gorth Brock
Russell Wong
Gordon Chen
Katy Behean
Mary Sinclair
Kyra Sedgwick
Tess Brock
Janine Turner
Shevaun Tillman
Norman Rodway
Aristotle Quance
John Bennett
Orlov
Vic Armstrong
Drunken Sailor
Dickey Beer
Brecks's Crew
Phil Chatterton Tongplaw
Boatswain
Kuan Tai Chen
Pirate
Shu Chen
Chuang Cheng
Rosemarie Dunham
Robert Easton
Richard Foo
Nicholas Gecks
Carol Gillies
Pat Gorman
British Merchant 2
Michael C. Gwynne
Billy Horrigan
Brecks's Crew
Denise Kellogg
Nude Model
Barbara Keogh
Joycelyne Lew
Beaten Whore
Lisa Lu
Bronco McLoughlin
Brecks's Crew
Glen Murphy
Martial Artist
Bert Remsen
Patrick Ryecart
Rob Spendlove
Patty Toy
Jie Zhang
Mason Cardiff
Midshipman (uncredited)
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Trivia
The film was originally announced by MGM in 1967-8 and was to be directed by Michael Anderson, but after severe operating losses the film was one of a number of expensive projects the new management at the studio dropped as too costly. In the 70s Steve McQueen agreed to play the lead for a then-record $10m and was paid an advance of $1m. When the producers were unable to pay the second installment on time, he dropped out, keeping the $1m he had already been paid. In 1980 Roger Moore agreed to play the lead, even going as far as to start to grow a beard for the part before that version fell through as well.
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Goofs
In a scene, set in 1841, several of the ladies were wearing bright mauve outfits. That would have been most unlikely for the wives of middle class traders at that time as the color purple was prohibitively expensive before the invention of analine dyes in London - in 1856. By 1870 these gaudy colors had become so cheap and commonplace that it became a status symbol to mimic the subtler, paler colors of the pre analine dye days.
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Photos from cast
Derrick Branche
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