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
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
Cast
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Videos
July 20 2016
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Trivia
This was the highest grossing film of 1932 in USA and Canada.
Howard Hawks made an unnoficial contribbution to the film's script.
The black-and-white leather gloves Dietrich wears at the start of the film were custom-made by Hermès.
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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