Movie
Shanghai Express
19321h 22m7.0 / 10
Many Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return!
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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Synopsis
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Cast, crew and production details
About Shanghai Express
Cast
Marlene DietrichShanghai Lily
Clive BrookCaptain Donald 'Doc' Harvey
Anna May WongHui Fei
Warner OlandMr. Henry Chang
Eugene PalletteSam Salt
Lawrence GrantReverend Carmichael
Louise Closser HaleMrs. Haggerty
Gustav von SeyffertitzEric BaumCredits
- Directed by
- Josef von Sternberg
- Written by
- Jules Furthman, Harry Hervey
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
Production
Paramount PicturesUnited States
Themes
based on short storybeijing, chinablack and whitechinachinese civil warex-loverinsurgencepre-codeprostituteraperebelshanghai, china
