Title: Shanghai Express
Original Title: Shanghai Express
Year: 1932
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 82 Minutes (1 hour 22 min)
- Genre: Adventure Drama Romance
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
Release Dates
- United States: February 02 1932
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Plot
'Shanghai Express' is a 1932 dramatic film directed by Josef von Sternberg starring Marlene Dietrich. This film was the Sternberg/Dietrich's fourth collaboration out of seven films they did together.
In 1931, China is embroiled in a civil war. All the foreigners, in order to be saved during the war, they're all in a express to Shanghai. During the journey, Captain Donald Harvey will encounter with a long lost love called Shanghai Lily, whom everyone knows her as a courtesan but for him she was the love of lis life. They will have to face the Chinese Government soldiers who try to apprehend a rebel agent on board. While they're being attacked they will have to decide if the love they feel about each other is worth fighting for.
Awards
- 1932 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 1
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Trivia
This was the highest grossing film of 1932 in USA and Canada.
China initially banned the movie, demanding its withdrawal from worldwide circulation. The ban was lifted when Paramount pledged not to make another film involving Chinese politics.
The extras in the film are all speaking Cantonese, a Chinese dialect focused mainly in southern China. If the film were to be more true to life, the extras would be speaking Mandarin, a more spoken dialect. However, most Chinese residents in the Los Angeles area spoke Cantonese, making von Sternberg use Cantonese.
Soundtrack from 'Shanghai Express'
Blue Blazes
Compuesta por
Richard A. Whiting
Ho-Hum
Compuesta por
Dana Suesse
Liebesträume
Compuesta por
Franz Liszt
Shanghai Express Prelude
Compuesta por
Rudolph G. Kopp
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