West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. It is based on the 1920 Porter Emerson Browne play The Bad Man. Three other films, all titled The Bad Man, are also based on the same play: * in 1923, directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Holbrook Blinn * in 1930, directed by Clarence Badger and starring Walter Huston * in 1941, starring Wallace Beery and Ronald Reagan and directed by Richard Thorpe.