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Shanghai Express (1932)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:9

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Average Rating:8.5/10

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: High adventure aboard a train traveling from Peking to Shanghai through a China enflamed in Civil War. When a warlord ambushes the train and threatens to blind Shanghai Lilly's (Dietrich's) old... High adventure aboard a train traveling from Peking to Shanghai through a China enflamed in Civil War. When a warlord ambushes the train and threatens to blind Shanghai Lilly's (Dietrich's) old flame, she offers herself to him instead. Academy Award nominations: 2, including Best Picture, Best Director. Academy Awards: Best Cinematography. [More]

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Clive Brook

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Clive Brook, Eugene Pallette, Louise Closser Hale, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Emile Chautard

Director: Josef Von Sternberg

Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Composer: W. Franke Harling

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This is one of seven vehicles where Dietrich and Sternberg teamed-up together, and it's one of their most pleasing.

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Sternberg's greatest work--and that's saying something!

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Although he was working on a sound stage, [Sternberg] makes China seem claustrophobic, dirty and exotic.

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