Golden Gate is a 1994 film produced by American Playhouse. It is the story of a 1950s G-Man (played by Matt Dillon) who gets involved with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Communist prosecutions, which leads him to become involved with a young Chinese American woman (played by Joan Chen), whose father he helped to put in prison. The film also features Bruno Kirby and Tzi Ma. The film is directed by the award-winning filmmaker John Madden and written by pre-eminent Asian American dramatist David Henry Hwang.
The film is available on videocassette.
This was a TV pilot aired by NBC in January 1994. It is significant because it was the last TV project that David James Elliot, Chris Meloni and Wayne Knight did before they really broke out as TV stars.
Fresh out of law school, Kevin Walker is recruited into the FBI and commissioned to root out communist subversives amongst the San Francisco Chinese community. He finds a loophole that will enable him to prosecute, but his loyalties become divided when he falls in love with Marilyn, a laundryman's daughter. Written by Jonathan Ridsdale
