Singapore Sling Collection - 4 Exotic Hardboiled Tales - (Singapore Sling / Road to Mandalay / Midnight Orchid / Old Flame) DVD

SINGAPORE SLING SYNOPSIS: John Stamford (John Waters) is a private detective living in Singapore. Annie Russell (Deborra-Lee Furness) is the Asian representative for World Action for Children (WAC). They come together. When WAC employs Internet, an international detective agency to investigate, Annie has her own reasons for asking John Stamford, if he can solve the case.

ROAD TO MANDALAY: Stamford is approached by an old underworld figure now going straight, Y.C. Kung, to find the murderers of his daughter and only grandson. But when his close friend, Internet operative Konrad Woolff, is killed during one of their investigations, Y.C.'s case must take second place. However, finding himself also on someone's hit list, it is not long before Stamford suspects a link between all three murders and finds himself caught up in the scramble for economic power in the New Chinese Hong Kong of post-1997.

MIDNIGHT ORCHID: Stamford and Carla attend the wedding of a long-time friend of Stamford's, Lee Cheng. When the wedding toast is drunk, chaos ensues, when and entire table of guests is poisoned. How can you find the murderer when you don't even know who the target was? Stamford works his way through the false leads and learns much about the underside of the lives of the rich and famous, before he uncovers the bizarre truth.

OLD FLAME: A famous film director and his crew arrive in town for two weeks of location filming. Stamford is overjoyed to find the leading lady, Francis "Frankie" Lane, is an old flame of his from his stringer days in Cambodia. When the leading man is killed in an apparent stunt-gone-wrong, Stamford's suspicion is aroused. As he quietly delves into the lives of the film unit, his investigation begins to point firmly in the direction of Frankie and Stamford finds that the 'good old days' are best left in the past.