

Shanghai Express
Many Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return!
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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- Released
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- Language
- Cantonese
- prostitute
- rape
- china
- shanghai, china
- rebel
- ex-lover
- insurgence
- chinese civil war
- black and white
- beijing, china
- pre-code
- based on short story
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United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California4 Feb 1932
- Theatrical12 Feb 1932
- Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York17 Feb 1932
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12Uraufführung im Mozartsaal, Berlin11 Apr 1932
ItalyIT
- Theatrical11 Oct 1932
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Shanghai Express was released on 12 February 1932.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
4/14/2020
When I needed your faith, you withheld it; and now, when I don't need it, and don't deserve it, you give it to me. Shanghai Express is directed by Josef von Sternberg and written by Jules Furthman (adaptation) & Harry Hervey (story). It stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brooks, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Palette and Lawrence Grant. Music is by W. Franke Harling & Rudoplh G. Kopp and cinematography by Lee Gar…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/8/2024
Amidst the civil war in 1930s China, a train is travelling from Peking to Shanghai carrying a disparate group of passengers that includes the infamous "Shanghai Lily" (Marlene Dietrich) and "Doc" (Clive Brook) who is on his way to perform surgery on a mandarin. The two have a past, and he reckons she is still a selfish woman quite capable of doing whatever is necessary to look after number one. That view changes when…
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