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Dominican Rep. Shanghai Express
- Original title
- Shanghai Express
- Year
- 1932
- Running time
- 80 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Marlene Dietrich
Clive Brook
Warner Oland
Anna May Wong
Eugene Pallette
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Louise Closser Hale
Lawrence Grant
Emile Chautard- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
Lee Garmes (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | 1920s. Trains / Subways. Melodrama
- Synopsis
- Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lily before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow passenger defines a coaster as "a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast." When Chinese guerillas stop the train, Dr. Harvey is taken hostage and held for ransom, and Lily is prepared to go to any length to have him set free.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1931: Oscar: Best Cinematography
- Critics' reviews
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"A mystical and exotic story of love and destruction, a film for which both star and director became legends."
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"Express is 80 tight minutes of railroad intrigue, an Oscar winner for cinematography (there's none better) and the film with the enduring line: 'It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily'"
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"Great Hollywood kitsch, supremely visualized by Von Sternberg and cinematographer Lee Garmes."
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"Irresistibly enjoyable."
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"Of all the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich films, this Oriental thriller may be the most sinfully pleasurable and amusing."
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