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Shanghai Express (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
82 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1932 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Josef von Sternberg

Written By:
Harry Hervey
Jules Furthman

Actors:
Marlene Dietrich ..... Shanghai Lily, aka Magdalen
Clive Brook ..... Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey
Anna May Wong ..... Hui Fei
Warner Oland ..... Mr. Henry Chang
Eugene Pallette ..... Sam Salt
Lawrence Grant ..... Reverend Mr. Carmichael
Louise Closser Hale ..... Mrs. Haggerty
Gustav von Seyffertitz ..... Eric Baum
Emile Chautard ..... Major Lenard

Synopsis:

As China's great train, the Shanghai Express, is being boarded and loaded with baggage, a mixed assortment of characters run elbows, a lady of questionable reputation known as 'the White Flower of the Chinese coast; a British Medical Corps officer; Warner Oland, a shady half-caste merchant with a penchant for carrying a cane; and Anna Mae Wong, an American-bred Chinese prostitute with plans for starting anew in marriage. The time of the journey is one of great political unrest, with the possibility of bands of rebels attacking the train looming large.

Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil 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 Lil 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 selected as the hostage. Lil saves him, but can she make him believe that she really hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years before?

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 16 December, 2009.

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