Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express

1932 · 82 min · EN · 7.0 (250 votes)
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · Starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant · Music W. Franke Harling

“Many Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return!”

DramaRomanceWar

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

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A smoky, glamorous journey across a turbulent China. Expect simmering tension, forbidden romance, and a palpable sense of danger as fate, and old flames, collide on a packed train.

romantictensemelancholicglamoroussteadypre-code Hollywoodart decoblack and whiteatmosphericromancesurvivalclassbetrayal
prostituterapechinashanghai, chinarebelex-loverinsurgencechinese civil warblack and whitebeijing, chinapre-codebased on short story
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