Golden Gate - DVD

Matt Dillon and Joan Chen heat up the screen in this stylish and compelling tale of mystery, intrigue and revenge as a brash F.B.I. Agent falls for the daughter of a man he wrongfully imprisoned during the height of McCarthy-era hysteria.

A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.

Buildings shake and crumble. Rubble rains down, burying hapless victims. Flames rage throughout what was once the Paris of the Pacific. This stirring recreation of the earthquake of 1906 is the finale to Old San Francisco, but plenty happens before the famed sequence. Warner Oland (later one of the screen's most memorable Charlie Chans) plays a cruel city boss, a Chinese disguised as an Occidental, who lusts after a gently bred daughter