Shanghai Express

1932
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Shanghai Express
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Title: Shanghai Express

Original Title: Shanghai Express

Year: 1932

Info

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

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Shanghai Lily

Lawrence Grant

Lawrence Grant

Reverend Mr. Carmichael

Clive Brook

Clive Brook

Doc Harvey

Warner Oland

Warner Oland

Henry Chang

Videos

'Shanghai Express' Trailer 1:40

Photos

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Trivia

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 black-and-white leather gloves Dietrich wears at the start of the film were custom-made by Hermès.

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.

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